Brian Horn grew up in Las Vegas, NV and learned to play guitar in a variety of High School punk and ska bands. The scene at the time consisted of hand-made flyers for shows scattered across town in the hopes that hordes of kids would descend upon some word-of-mouth location in the middle of the desert (“the tubes”, “the caves”, etc.) to rock out with a generator and a bonfire until the cops inevitably showed up. It was here in 1995 that Brian and some friends formed The Ovalteens, an instrumental blend of ska and surf music. Though the band ultimately dissolved, the concept of performing alchemy between genres never left Brian’s brain. After a handful of other influential music projects throughout Film School, Brian returned to instrumental music in 2005 with the formation of The Ghosts of Searchlight. Part Man...or Astroman?, part Explosions in the Sky, this band was to be a long-term home for Brian’s love of instrumental rock music

“The Ghosts of Searchlight were supposed to be dead. A part of life that had to be discarded to make room for so many other things. But as life ground to halt, there was time to decide what really could stay and what could go. And what needed to be brought back. Sprawl encompasses much of that sense of longing and taking inventory. And it’s not just what’s in the album, it’s what brought the Ghosts back to life.”