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After the critically lauded Everyone's A Photographer, Horse Stories, the project of US-based, Melbourne-raised songwriter Toby Burke, didn't make a record for four years. Which isn't to say Toby hasn't been busy - with two offerings of experimental instrumental music (one accompanied by a photographic exhibition), two collections of short stories, score work, record producing and a major gallery installation, all to his name in that time.
Ever the nomad, Toby's been on the move again too. In 2007, after two years back in his birthplace, Melbourne, and largely out of the music scene, Toby relocated to his adopted home of Los Angeles (his third international relocation in four years). It was there, holed-up in a windowless garage under his house in the Silver Lake neighborhood, that the material for November, November, his 2009 lp, was arduously crafted. Day by day, verse by verse, for nearly two years.

Doing what he could to make the dark and dingy garage space as hospitable a studio as possible - including painting one wall 'monster' green to brighten things up and rolling in an old piano - Toby came up with 10 undeniably well-crafted songs, demoing each numerous times - all the while sharpening not only the songs, but his guitar playing, piano skills and his singing.

The result is November, November. Recorded mostly live-to-tape with producer/multi-instrumentalist Luther Russell and engineer/bassist Jason Hiller, November, November is Horse Stories' most assured, mature and consistent album to date. With help from old friend Beth Balmer, Horse Stories have conjured up an album that touches upon the Holy Grail of record making––something at once classic and original.