Album Review: Everardo Ramirez, Goodbye Horses
Everardo Ramirez marks ten years of being a comedian with the release of Goodbye Horses. It is a debut album that has a very authentic and relaxed feel to it, enabling Ramirez to take the listener on an amusing 32-minute laugh-filled journey. He covers a variety of every day ordinary topics (and others more obscure), while tapping into a universal humour that has the live audience chuckling away, and will surely have listeners at home doing the same.
From the very start of Goodbye Horses, Ramirez draws the audience in on track 1 with what he calls a “Bad way to start.” The audience is endeared as he introduces himself in track 2’s aptly titled “Ramirez”, a surname that some don’t expect him to have, based on what he looks like. There is a lot of the unexpected on this album with Ramirez discussing subway terrorism (track 7), prize money desperation (track 12) and bands peeing in bowls (track 17), to name a few.
The album’s title is rooted in the penultimate track (19), “A Modest Proposal”, which will have the listener contemplating the relevance of horses, possibly siding with Ramirez, a man who strongly supports the eradication of horses. Wait, what? Take a listen to find out what that’s all about – it’s just one part of an album that’s altogether fun.
Goodbye Horses was released on April 7, 2023 by Flower Boy Records.
The album is dedicated to Nick Nemeroff
Nick Nemeroff reflects on his Comedy Album of the Year nomination at the 50th Annual Juno Awards.