“I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result

A press shot of a formal horse.

Six years after A Formal Horse released their first EP, the Southampton avant-rockers returned with their long-awaited debut album. In 2019 they told Prog how they’d faced plenty of challenges on the way – but that the resulting LP, Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower, had been worth the effort.

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