Horse Jumper of Love

Sometimes the best art happens when no one is paying attention. That was certainly the case for Horse Jumper of Love's self-titled debut, an album of scrappy, aching slowcore, written in a basement, quietly put on Bandcamp and tape in 2016 by Disposable America, and then given a wider release on vinyl and streaming the following year by Run For Cover Records. The album's extremely humble origins might seem incongruous with its outsized impact-a decade on Horse Jumper of Love is widely regarded as an essential record of the 2010s, a key release that helped propel slowcore and shoegaze out of...