Horns of Happiness began as the lo-fi pop side project of Impossible Shapes' Aaron Deer, whose 2004 release A Sea as a Shore featured an array of instruments delivering a somewhat uneven group of songs. The addition of drummer Shelley Harrison, however, helps to make Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline more engaging. The six songs on this 12"-only release are hypnotic, cyclical affairs, relying on dense, fuzzy organ drones and simple, driving drumbeats. The arrangements are often simple-- typically featuring no more than two or three parts-- but the results are far from boring or generic.

Organ and drums are the most prominent instruments utilized here-- although keyboard flourishes, strings, and guitars find their way in as well. Deer's pure, clean vocals are the perfect counter to the eerie, robotic sonics, but they're only featured on about half of the songs. As a result they become part of the mix in a unique way-- not by demanding your attention, despite their clarity, but by snaking their way through the tracks.