Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

Horses In The Sky

CST033   2x180gLP • CD • DL

21st Anniversary vinyl re-press with reworked packaging pictured here and available as of November 2026.

Horses In The Sky is often cited as a high water mark in Silver Mt. Zion's discography, cementing their evolution into a distinctly uncategorizable band blending punk, emo, post-classical, Klezmer, and other folkways to forge an incisive, iconoclastic, genre-defying protest music. With Efrim Menuck's uncompromising lyrical poetics and lead vocals, often backed by the group singing SMZ would also become known for through this mid-2000s period, these six tracks spread across three sides of vinyl include some of the group’s most beloved and devastating multi-movement opuses, including huge live favourites like “God Bless Our Dead Marines” and “Mountains Made Of Steam.” The top 'post-rock' album of 2005 at Tiny Mix Tapes, among other accolades, Horses In The Sky is one of the more sublime and trenchant political post-punk records to emerge from the early years of our 21st century Terror Wars.

2xLP pressed on 180gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket printed on reverse board with matte UV inks, artworked inner sleeves, 12-page 10"x10" art booklet, and etched vinyl on Side D.

CD comes in a custom paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with 12-page 5"x5" booklet and inner dust sleeve for the disc.

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Release Date: 21 March 2005
Duration: 58:29

CREDITS

Beckie Foon: cello, voice

Efrim Menuck: guitar, piano, voice

Ian Ilavsky: guitar, harmonium, voice

Jessica Moss: violin, piano, glasses, voice

Scott Gilmore: drums, percussion, guitar, mandolin, voice

Sophie Trudeau: violin, trumpet, glasses, voice

Thierry Amar: contrabass, glasses, harmonica, voice

Recorded at thee mighty Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Howard Bilerman.

Track 5 recorded at Garfield’s fire pit.

Mixed by Howard Bilerman and the Tra-La-La Band.

Mastered by J.F. Chicoine.

Beckie Foon: cello, voice

Efrim Menuck: guitar, piano, voice

Ian Ilavsky: guitar, harmonium, voice

Jessica Moss: violin, piano, glasses, voice

Scott Gilmore: drums, percussion, guitar, mandolin, voice

Sophie Trudeau: violin, trumpet, glasses, voice

Thierry Amar: contrabass, glasses, harmonica, voice

Recorded at thee mighty Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Howard Bilerman.

Track 5 recorded at Garfield’s fire pit.

Mixed by Howard Bilerman and the Tra-La-La Band.

Mastered by J.F. Chicoine.

 

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we recorded some of it next to a campfire by the river, and the sleepy birds even chirped a little there beneath the moonlit trees; “yes we are oh yes we are thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra and tra-la-la band”… troubled fingers strive to knit upward ladders, joyously; THESE SONGS ARE STICKY, WORRIED KNOTS – everyone sang and handclapped too – (we learned to play these songs on the road mostly…)

“THIS IS OUR TORCHED ESTATES” = 6 busted “waltzes” for world wars 4 thru 6, or the sound of our nervous unit collapsing across sing-song eruptions of anxious light and clumsy heat, “mysteryandwonder, messy hearts made of thunder,” tape recordered at thee mighty hotel2tango for all the GENTLE dreamers to cradle or discard… the politics of it is just love thy neighbour mostly, or heartbroken temper tantrums for grumpy refusers, or saucy anthems for all the stubborn dumbass resistance cadres maybe…(first song’s about war and drug addiction, fourth song’s about kanada, and the rest of it is all love songs trulytrulytruly…) the indignant critics amongst us should note that as usual there’s more questions than answers here, more complaints than solutions, and at times the group singing is a little out of tune; the name of the record is “horses in the sky”, and we thank you all for still listening.