They Are Gutting a Body of Water and Horse Jumper of Love merge worlds on charter spec

They Are Gutting a Body of Water and Horse Jumper of Love have released charter spec, one of the strongest shoegaze and indie-rock collaboration items carrying into 20 May. The track is TAGABOW’s first new music since the 2025 album LOTTO and brings together Doug Dulgarian’s Philadelphia noise-shoegaze world with Dimitri Giannopoulos and Horse Jumper of Love’s heavier slowcore-adjacent sensitivity.

The result is a collaboration that makes sense on paper but should be even more interesting in sound: two bands that understand texture, volume and emotional blur, but approach them from different angles.

The Line of Best Fit notes that the song combines textured guitar melodies with vocals from both Dulgarian and Giannopoulos, while Pitchfork reports that TAGABOW have also lined up a fall US tour and that the song acts as a preface for a forthcoming collaborative mixtape.

That mixtape angle makes charter spec more than a loose one-off. It feels like the start of a wider exchange between artists who share a language of distortion, tenderness and collapse. For indie readers, this is exactly the kind of current single worth highlighting: not a massive pop moment, but a scene-relevant collaboration between two bands with devoted listeners and overlapping emotional weather.