Horsegirl began life blending shoegaze and noise when they were teenage schoolgirls in Chicago. This is the opening song of their 2022 debut album.

Horsegirl tap into that early-’90s sound of bands like Breeder and Belly. I love the warped guitar sound and the apathetic vocal of this song, Anti-Glory.

Formed by three schoolfriends in Chicago – Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece – their early songs were a bit of blurry, hazy, gauzy and shoegazey. I love their sound, and also the name of the band, Horsegirl, and the earnest demeanour of the girls when they perform.

They’re very young: their debut album Versions Of Modern Performance, from which this is the opening track, was released just as they graduated from high school in 2022.

A year later they moved to New York but went back home to make their second album, Phonetics On And On, stripping back their sound with producer Cate Le Bon.

Their latest material strips it back even further, with a more acoustic flavour, but still identifiably Horsegirl.