With “Nature Is Healing”, HorsegiirL takes the riskiest step that a project born as a meme, avatar or viral phenomenon can attempt: to transform its narrative universe into something that aspires to last beyond the initial joke. The half-horse, half-human DJ who has conquered festivals in recent years, social networks and international clubs could have limited himself to reiterating the formula of “My Barn My Rules”, accumulating hard-dance, irony and equine nonsense until the game ran out. Instead he chooses a more ambitious direction: building an album that tries to bring together humor, pop spirituality, rave culture and a sincere tension towards the idea of community.
It is precisely this contradiction that makes “Nature Is Healing” interesting. On the one hand, the caricatural dimension of the character continues to exist: apples, ponies, motivational slogans, robotic voices and a constant sensation of being inside a hyperactive cartoon. On the other hand, surprisingly authentic research emerges on connection, collective well-being and the relationship between living beings and the environment. A delicate balance that could easily have slipped into involuntary parody or new age rhetoric, but which HorsegiirL almost always manages to keep in motion thanks to a writing that is aware of its own absurdity.
The album represents his most complete and multifaceted work. Who expects an hour of happy hardcore And hardstyle he will be shocked. The electronic foundations remain clear, but the scope is continually expanding: bubblegum bassdance-pop, eurotrance, house, electro-pop, trip-hop suggestions, references to the nineties and even certain atmospheres from chill-out room that seem to emerge from a compilation balearic forgotten in the sun. It's a surprisingly broad palette that, while sometimes risking dispersion, allows the album to avoid the monotony that often accompanies many debuts built around one concept so strong.
“Nature Is Healing” is an imperfect but surprisingly courageous debut. HorsegiirL chooses the path of imagination. It may seem naive, at times even ridiculous. But behind the fluorescent surface of the project, his desire to still believe that a song can generate collective joy without necessarily having to justify its existence through irony is clear.
04/07/2026
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
