The Horrors
Reviews have been simply astonishing for The Horrors second album, ‘Primary Colours’. Drowned In Sound insists, and we agree, that it's “wholly worth all the hype that’s attracted to its unexpected brilliance". Changes of direction like this have rarely been so successful, but it works “in a good, nay, great way. Because they're out of the garage. There's no dicking around with sub-two minute blasts of noise designed solely to provoke and annoy. There are songs on here. Actual, complex, textured, songs.”
Influences have been pointed to as far afield as Can, Neu!, Jesus & Mary Chain – in short, much, much more adventurous material than they have ever produced before. It’ll be one of the albums of the year, and have a shelf-life way beyond 2009.
“Much as My Bloody Valentine went from Crampsesque rockers to sonic wanderers, Primal Scream dropped the cosmic garage rock jangle for insanely popular crossover sounds of Screamadelica and and Liars threw away trucker cap hipster rhythms in favour of a concept album about witches, The Horrors have come back with an album that's in thrall to 80s goth, krautrock, shoegaze and post punk”
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The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
