Horses＜完全生産限定盤/Grey Vinyl＞

クイーン・オブ・パンク=パティ・スミス衝撃のデビュー・アルバム 1975年作品『ホーセス』

クイーン・オブ・パンク=パティ・スミス。彼女を象徴する1975年衝撃のデビュー・アルバム『Horses』(ホーセス)。最初のパンクロック・アルバムとも称されるこの作品が発売50年を迎え、オリジナル・マスターを使用し、グレーのカラー・ヴァイナルで登場。

※2025/10/10 発売 Horses (50th Anniversary)とは、音源(マスタリング)が異なります。

It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; "Land" carries on from the Doors' "The End," marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances" are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s. Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word/musical art form: Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple rock & roll song." ~ William Ruhlmann