Horse Jumper of Love is a three piece “Slow Rock” band from Boston, Massachusetts made up of Dimitri Giannopoulous (vocalist and guitarist) and Jamie Vadala-Doran (drummer), and John Margaris (bassist). After slowly releasing over 25 songs on their Bandcamp page, the band finally put out a full length album in March of 2016 through Gawk and Disposable America.

In an DigBoston article, Nina Corcoran uncovers the age old question, “What? What even is a horse jumper of love?” The answer could be found in an Ovid poem. Corcoran explains that a “Roman poet tries to win back a woman. Upset and desperate to revive their relationship, he spews out a bunch of words, hoping they will please her. One of the lines, when translated, is the type of strange, awkwardly-worded confession that only translation can make possible: “I am not a horse jumper of love.”