The Common Task is the fourth studio album by American experimental rock band Horse Lords.

If it sounds similar to the way the human brain responds to certain psychedelics, it's no accident—the band's perspective was shaped in no small part by formative experiences with psychotropic drugs.

[11] Dusted Magazine writing, Ian Forsynthe, gave the album four stars out of five, praising the fluidity and composition of the record.

Forsynthe said that "their nearly ten-year core pivots rhythmic and tonal ideas athletically, and their ability to pull elements from anywhere and everywhere is seemingly more fluid with each record.

Simpson said that The Common Task "lay a complex, polyrhythmic form of music that incorporates just intonation, algorithmic composition, and microtonal harmonies.