Horizon (The Rocking Horse Winner album)

Horizon
Studio album by
The Rocking Horse Winner
ReleasedApril 30, 2002 (2002-04-30)
Recorded2001 (2001)
Studio
  • Wisner Productions, Davie, Florida
  • Landmark Productions & Recording Studios, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • South Point Productions, Miami, Florida
GenreIndie rock
Length36:23
LabelEqual Vision
ProducerJames Paul Wisner
The Rocking Horse Winner chronology
State of Feeling Concentration
(2001) 		Horizon
(2002)
Singles from Horizon
  1. "Miss You"
    Released: January 28, 2003 (2003-01-28)

Horizon is the second album by American indie rock band The Rocking Horse Winner. It was released on April 30, 2002, by American record label Equal Vision Records on compact disc and digitally.[1][2][3] American record label Friend Club Records licensed the rights to reissue the album on compact cassette on April 22, 2021.[4][5][6] The album features the single "Miss You", for which a music video was produced with director Chris Irving and released on January 28, 2003.[7][8][9] Horizon topped CMJ New Music Report's "Radio 200 Adds" chart as Most-Added Album on May 28, 2002,[10] and reached No. 44 on the "CMJ Radio 200" chart on July 9, 2002.[11]

In promotion of the release, the Rocking Horse Winner toured the United States extensively between October 2001 and March 2003, accompanied by such bands as Dashboard Confessional, Coheed and Cambria, The Format, Bayside, The Blood Brothers, The Weakerthans, Further Seems Forever, Midtown, Hopesfall, Hey Mercedes, Brandtson, Sense Field, Onelinedrawing, Fairweather, Koufax, Twothirtyeight, Seville, The Lyndsay Diaries, The Cancer Conspiracy, Fairview and The Remedy Session. The band also performed at notable festivals like Van's Warped Tour, MACROCK, South by Southwest, CMJ Music Marathon, Monster Fest, Krazy Fest and Gainesvillefest.

The album was recorded with producer James Paul Wisner and features lead vocalist Jolie Lindholm, guitarist, pianist and backing vocalist Henry Olmino, bass guitarist Jeronimo Gomez, and drummer, percussionist and pianist Matthew Crum. The line-up remained mostly intact for the album's promotional tours, with the exception of a tour with Dashboard Confessional during which drummer Steve Kleisath filled in for Crum. Lindholm's sister, Kristen Lindholm, also occasionally joined the band as a backing vocalist.

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  4. ^ Anderl, Timothy (April 2, 2021). "Friend Club Records reissues The Rocking Horse Winner's Horizon on cassette". Ghettoblaster Magazine. Archived from the original on April 2, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
  5. ^ Sheetz, Kendra (April 5, 2021). "Friend Club Records Reissues The Rocking Horse Winner's Album 'Horizon'". Bad Copy. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
  6. ^ Anderl, Timothy (April 2, 2021). "News: Friend Club Records Reissues The Rocking Horse Winner's Horizon on Cassette". New Noise Magazine. Archived from the original on May 2, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
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