"Ninety-nine per cent of bands would have broken up after what we've been through." After weathering personal loss, recovery and a changing line-up, A Thousand Horses have finally delivered the "full-throttle" album they were born to make

A Thousand Horses.

In August last year, A Thousand Horses released a new single titled Voices. A dark and expansive beauty, it was a foretaste of what the Nashville-based trio called “the full-throttle rock album that’s been sleeping in our souls all along”. The response from fans was overwhelming. So much so, in fact, that it outperformed the band’s platinum-selling signature song, 2015’s Smoke, within weeks of release.

“That was such a great thing to see, because you never know how people are going to respond,” says lead singer Michael Hobby. “We’d decided to be brave, artistically, with what we wanted to do. And I think people recognised that this felt real, that it felt honest.”