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.
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
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TRACK-BY-TRACK
Band: THE HORRORS Who: Dark-synth-wavers
from Southend-on-Sea, UK.
Jim Marson (singer/lyricist): “’Triumph’ is a rallying cry for anyone who feels stifled by
societal pressures. It’s an exploration of the tension between personal desires and the pressures of society. Societal norms can suffocate the younger generation, many of whom can feel out of place in a world that demands conformity. It questions the true cost of such conformity to our own potential and values.”
Angry guitar/bass-manic ripper
inflamed with anxious vocals.
The start made me instantly think of German fromer electro duo
D.A.F. (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft), then it progresses
more like a Hot Chip twister with ghostly vocals. Puzzling cut.
Band: THE CURE Who: The English goth gods who
have been around for ages.
Track: ALONE
First single from their 14th longplayer, the first in 16 years,
baptized Songs Of A Lost World. It’s out November 1st.
An almost 7-minute funeral march, a slowly progressing lament,
layered with mourning synths. Smith only starts singing halfway
and augments the sombre atmosphere all the way through.
Band: THE KILLS Who: Singer Alison Mosshart and
guitarist Jamie Hince.
Track: MY GIRLS MY GIRLS
Last weekend they launched an acoustic 5-track EP,
called with one Billie Eilish cover and non-electric version
of 4 songs from last year’s God Games LP
This pearl is my favourite one.
How can you not love Mosshart‘s
room-filling, heart and soul voice.
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).
