THE HORRORS Frontman FARIS BADWAN Names His Near-Favourite Band
14 June 2025
Faris Badwan, 2nd from the right
The band’s 6th LP ‘Night Life’ is out now.
Night Life
THE HORRORS Take You On A Mood Swings Roller Coaster With New Album ‘NIGHT LIFE’
27 March 2025
Band: THE HORRORS
Who: Psychedelic synth-dark-wave dropouts from
London. They will celebrate their 20th birthday
as a band next year (hard to believe).
New album: NIGHT LIFE
Their 1st in 7 years
and 6th overall.
New album artwork
Press info: Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always
been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause.
The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album Night Life sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new
line-up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.
NME‘s verdict: “Viewing their discography today, it’s as though The Horrors arrived
in the early hours, pushed on through the brightening stages of the day, through the
vibrant glory of the early evening and have now returned to the depths of the darkest
night. It feels like this is where they belong.”
TUTV: Their second, 2009 album Primary Colors is my favorite Horrors LP
in my book and in many others’ too. This new one will not change that fact.
Night Life is, sonically, an unbalanced affair. The band alternate soft, musing pieces with industrial outbursts. From dreamland to our messed-up times. It takes the rhythm out of the record way too much. On the other hand, you won’t find a bad track, and Silent Sister, Trial By Fire, and More Than Life are the stand-out ones.
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THE HORRORS Present Another Track From Their Forthcoming LP – Hear Synth Symphony ‘ARIEL’ Here
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23 February 2025
Band: THE HORRORS
Who: Psychedelic synth-dark-wave mavericks from
London. This year they celebrate their 20th birthday.
Hard to believe that they are 2 decades old.
New album: NIGHT LIFE
Their 1st in 7 years
and 6th overall.
Release: 21 March 2025
Pre-order info: here.
With new piece ARIEL the band drop
the 5th preview from the upcoming LP.
It’s a illusory and introspective synth symphony with Faris
Badwan‘s hallucinatory voice creating a mysterious ambiance.
All 5 singles
Magazine This – THE HORRORS 2006
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THE HORRORS
NME – 2006
Almost 20 years later (on March 21st) the British post-punk band will release new album Night Life. Their 1st in 7 years and 6th overall.
Newest single.
THE HORRORS – British Synth Rock Darkwavers Give Birth To Their 7th Album ‘NIGHT LIFE’ On 21 March 2025
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21 December 2024
Band: THE HORRORS
Who: Psychedelic synth-dark-wave dropouts from
London. They will celebrate their 20th birthday
as a band next year (hard to believe).
New album: NIGHT LIFE
Their 1st in 7 years
and 6th overall.
Release: 21 March 2025
Pre-order info: here.
New album artwork
Press info: “Nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut Strange House, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their Mercury-nominated follow up Primary Colours, since the beginning they’ve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. 2011’s Skying won the NME Award for Best Album; V was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star Guardian review.
“The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album Night Life sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.”
Singles (shared so far): The Silence That Remains / Trial By Fire / Lotus Eater
– THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS –
– TRIAL BY FIRE –
– LOTUS EATER –
THE HORRORS Share New Hallucinatory Odyssey ‘LOTUS EATER’ From Their Upcoming 7th LP
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6 December 2024
I can hardly believe that British psychedelic synth-dark-wave
desperados THE HORRORS will celebrate their 20th birthday
as a band next year.
So far they released 6 notable albums.
You can check them on Spotify.
A few weeks ago the band announced the upcoming birth of their 7th LP,
their first in 7 years, named Night Life. It’ll hit the streets on March 21st.
More info here.
New album artwork
With the 3rd preview track, titled LOTUS EATER The Horrors take us
on a 7-minute dream odyssey on top of waves of glistening synths.
A hallucinatory trip. Bon voyage.
Wake up people,
and have some
lotuses for
breakfast.
THE HORRORS – British Darkwave Mavericks Return With Synth-Layered Twilight Dream ‘THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
2 October 2024
It’s almost unbelievable that British darkwave mavericks
THE HORRORS will celebrate their 20th birthday as a band
next year.
So far they released 5 notable albums.
You can check them on Spotify.
With NIGHT LIFE the 4-piece announced the upcoming arrival of their
first new LP in 7 years. It will land next year, on March 21st. More info here.
New album artwork
Press statement: Their most industrial, uncompromising output yet. Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause. The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album Night Life sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.”
Lead single THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS floats sonically, somewhere between
Joy Division (could be Peter Hook on bass) and early Editors. The song is about a 3am insomnia walk through the city, retracing your steps and putting the past to bed.
It swells in vehemence every time when the other-worldly synth-layered chorus
lights up. Faris Badwan still sings as he’s in a twilight zone of his own. The new
keyboardist Amelia Kidd assist him on vocals now and then. Welcome back (can’t
wait to see you live again).
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