the horrors - classic or dud

Or to put it another way the fact that they are biting krautrock and drone rather than just garage rock shows that they want to develop.

This album is gash. It only got to 25 so hopefully they'll get dropped again.

i liked the single that sampled 'mother sky'. it was good.

I'd be really, really curious to hear the reactions to this album had it come from some no-names with no previous history.

I haven't felt the urge to go back to this album. I have enough records that sound a bit like this, I really don't need another one, especially with shitey goth vocals all over it.

I can't really get behind the implication that it's inherently more musically... distinguished to do an album that's a bite of Can and Loop or whatever than one that's a bite of The Cramps and The Birthday Party or whatever. Like all of those are more or less canonically esteemed bands in equal measure, y'know?

― display mane (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's pretty OTM. So they've done a better job aping Can than they did the Cramps. Big deal.

hang on, the only place where they ape Can on this record is on the first third of one song

i mean, MBV and Spiritualized have much more of a case in the legal department imo

I have only heard this one song lol.

it doesn't sound much like can except for the beat tbh

LIKE KANYE

It's a really good song, is what people are ignoring :P

(And the fact is, the best things about it have nothing to do with Can, and a helluva lot to do with uh er Portishead lolz)

So they've done a better job aping Can than they did the Cramps. Big deal.

I'm not even sure they have done a better job - both albums come off to me as well-intentioned but less than the sum of their parts. (And yeah I don't think it's a *flagrant* rip of any of these people but my point is it's all record collection rock or music critic rock or whatever you call it.)

it's all record collection rock or music critic rock or whatever you call it.

sometimes this stuff is good though, idk, im not prescriptive. it's usually music critics/blogtards who have a problem with 'music critic rock' n'est ce pas.

Sea Within A Sea is immense but I don't really feel any compulsion to listen to any of the other tracks to see what they are like.

The Can rip in particular was pretty much alarms goin off I thought, but all that aside I think the best I say is...it's nice...I wouldn't say it sucks. I just can not muster any enthusiasm for these dudes.

NB I'm still butthurt that everyone pays attention to these dudes when there was already a better Horrors.

sometimes this stuff is good though, idk, im not prescriptive. it's usually music critics/blogtards who have a problem with 'music critic rock' n'est ce pas.

Oh me too, some of my favourite bands etc etc - just sayin is all

also bear in mind that this is exactly the type of band i wouldn't have given the time of day to until i heard the new music with my own ears

like i said on the other thread, "i only think of you" and "new ice age" are stormers, up there with "sea within a sea"

I have listened to this album at least 20 times in the last week...

give or take

new record sounds like the stone roses with a hangover. i don't think the world is quite ready for a baggy shoegaze revival.

I've not heard the whole album but someone sent me the opening track and, aside from some vaguely MBV guitar oscillation it's just goth, isn't it? Doomy vocals and nasty snare sound. But didn't MBV come from a nasty goth background? The Stone Roses certainly did, following on from what horses said above.

But didn't MBV come from a nasty goth background?

Not exactly?

the stone roses with a hangover

bahahahaha

Any further opinions on this?

My opinion - best British indie rock record of the last five years. I know that isn't saying much mind you.

All these Can comparisons, I think are overblown. The rest of the album sounds more like Magazine playing in Joy Division's studio.

on acid?

The rest of the album sounds like the Psychedelic Furs playing in White Lies' studio.

This is actually pretty good. I'm impressed.

I listened to it once through...thought it definitely had its moments, but couldn't really decide. Was planning to listen again, soon.

woowwwww this new record came out of left field. They're first one is one of the worst albums I've ever bought, I sold it the day after I bought it.

this new is incredible. just hit me.

Me having a mutter with Tom of said band.

i love this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EOPIi4Q3lM

amazingly, this really has ended up one of the better albums of the year.

haven't seen any discussion about the 'cat's eyes' faris badwan side project, listening to the EP on spotify now, one of the tracks is a little broadcast-y

http://thehorrors.co.uk/

Simple Minds. That's disappointing.

Well, fuck.
I liked the last one a lot, but mostly as a precursor to more of it, more refined "it".
Not "this".

Who knew their career path would become that of the Delays.

it doesn't sound good, but maybe there'll be a cool video or naked album cover to balance things out

Cynic.

Cynic >>> The Horrors

"Skying" is a pretty dismal title. It's just hard to say, isn't it. "Skylarking", sure. "Skykicking", why not. But "Skying", well there you go.

(I'll probably still get this, though)

Uh eww. Hope this song's an anomaly. I liked the gazey 80s vibe on the last one. I liked the scuzzy garage goth feel on the first one, really.

http://thehorrors.co.uk/images/TheHorrorsSkying.jpg

that video is cringeworthy and embarassing. gothgaze? i dont know what the fuck any more.

Sea Within A Sea is still just such a great bit of music, right?