Australian garage punks media puzzle today share ‘More Horse, Less Code’, another cut from their forthcoming LP New Racehorse, due April 17 via Impressed Recordings. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE THE LP HERE.

Marking the next taste of new music from the band since their previous single ‘Knowledge’, which garnered praise far and wide from BBC Radio 6, triple j, RAGE, fbi radio, Wonderland Magazine, So Young Magazine, Still Listening Magazine and more, media puzzle continue their rejuvenation of free-ranging guitars and experimentalist arrangement.

A rollicking track that revels in the space they’ve carved out, lead vocalist and guitarist Tom Peter says “More Horse, Less Code. More Life, Less Tech. We’re all guilty. Made on a whim and easily the funnest song to create on the album, the song is somewhat of an absurdist take on our reliance on modern technology.”

Watch: ‘More Horse, Less Code’ (Official Music Video)

Taking their name from a 2002 Melbourne Cup-winning Irish racehorse, media puzzle is the solo recording project of Northern Rivers-based artist and musician Tom Peter with support from Kellie Eden(synth/trumpet), Eden Yeigh (guitar), Oliver Clarke (drums) and Solomon Jones (bass). Since first emerging in 2023 with their EP 14, they quickly made a name for themselves for their drum machine-riddled, scuzzy post-punk sound immortalised through three albums and another EP, with Pitchfork firmly praising their last project Intermission as “uncanny creativity that egg-punk weirdos love to tout, residing somewhere between Suicide’s dark melodies and Uranium Club’s remote eccentricities”. 

Marking their fourth album, New Racehorse is a surreal commentary on modern existence: technology, love, death, responsibility, and ego. Signifying a rebirth for the band, the record is a focus on experimentation and building outwards from their trademark sonically distorted sound, bringing eccentric samples and dynamic pace.

Having spent the last year recording and touring with showcases at SXSW Sydney to stages with Ty Segall, Regurgitator and more, their sound has evolved into one that is grounded in reinvention and driven by curiosity. Focused and refined, New Racehorse is departure from media puzzle’s previous catalogue, once a model of fuzzy scuzz-pop, to now an otherworldly post-punk entity.