Matter of dreams. That is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Horse Jumper Of Love for the first time. It was like that with the debut, the self-titled album that celebrated ten years this year. The songs carried the dreamlike and weighed shoegaze along unusual paths, recalling John Maus or Joy Division here and there, with surprising gestures. The Boston trio has not stopped since then. Classic lineup, guitar, bass, drums, in the hands of Dimitri Giannopoulos, John Margaris and Jamie Vadala-Doran. The latest album, from 2024, Disaster Trick, perfects the recipe. Somewhat unexpectedly, more discreet, slowcore. The Horse Jumper Of Love live on their skin this kind of renewal of 1990s indie that has been happening for about a decade, without having been confirmed in its entirety. It is not a replication, or homage, but rather recognizing that that sound served a state. The search for a sound, as an idea, allowed various paths for those who wanted to pick up just a guitar, bass and drums. One can trust this through the path of renewal as tradition, following the clues of traditional music. Perhaps it is even a way for pop/rock music to want to assume itself as traditional. This search has led to songs that are listened to with today's thinking. Dimitri Giannopoulos, the band's vocalist, explores these points in his lyrics, combining a Low/Red House Painters presence with the urgency that the times demand, because it is one of greater dissatisfaction. And that is why one thinks of John Maus and Joy Division: a viable, justifiable path that serves them very well. In the dreams of Horse Jumper Of Love one looks at the sky. One looks at the sky wanting there to be an idea of no limit, providing the only satisfactory answer for today. Dimitri leaves ideas suspended, both in the writing and in the way he conducts the voice, releasing it, at times, into the air, as if that idea had no end, that dream could not end or that the end does not have to be determined by the idea of an end. A somewhat romantic, even tragic, idea of a musician who seems not to want to look at what awaits him. It is fascinating that there is still courage for that. AS.