{"id":203557,"date":"2026-04-20T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:41:34","slug":"gifthorse-impress-on-new-ep-queens-of-highgate-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203557\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFTHORSE Impress On New EP &#8216;Queens Of Highgate&#8217; | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GIFTHORSE have shared their new EP \u2018Queens Of Highgate\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The band hail from North London, and reference points from their locality litter their lyric sheets. Recently shooting a live session in Waterlow Park \u2013 close to the famed bust of Karl Marx which sits atop his grave \u2013 it\u2019s safe to say they write about what they know.<\/p>\n<p>Cute indie pop hymns that are unafraid to linger on the noise aspects of the guitar spectrum, GIFTHORSE blend everything from Spector-esque girl group melodies to shoegaze heaven, with the odd crunching punk power chord for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>Out now, \u2018Queens Of Highgate\u2019 is an excellent listen \u2013 teasing their undoubted potential, the prodigal outfit tap into their passion for melody while never simply replicating the past.<\/p>\n<p>Stamping their identity on each song, the EP builds up into something that is succinct, yet also fully formed.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GIFTHORSE have shared their new EP \u2018Queens Of Highgate\u2019. The band hail from North London, and reference points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[80547,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-203557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-gifthorse","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}