I've got three UKHorrors songs on my ipod: "She's a Parasite", "Jack the Ripper" (the Screaming Lord Sutch cover), and "Count in Fives". All very trad garage punk, with maybe a bit more noise/stiffness than the run of the genre. Goth touches around the edges, but more present in the shoes & hairdos than in the music. Somewhere between "Psychotic Reaction" and "Release the Bats".
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Forgot about the 'other' Horrors. I have an LP by them.
My girlfriend once head two of the Horrors (UK) through a hotel wall having a really pathetic it's my band/no it's my band argument.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
head = heard obv.
when chasing girl who turns out to be ex of horrors singer does one turn heels stat or press on w/ grimace?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
From Leeds?
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
American Horrors were the shit, just brutal Pussy Galore -strength garage punk. They get extra points for coming out of such a tiny, isolated place (Cedar Rapids or Cedar Falls, Iowa, I can't recall), too. I played a show there once, and the Horrors dude did a solo set of bluesy, almost scarily bleak country.
Horrors UK sounded more Boys Next Door than Birthday Party to my ears, nice enough, and fun in a batdancing kind of way, but thin and underwhelming and just sorta pleasant. That was them in that Mighty Boosh episode, right? The tight pants band?
― BigLurks, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Boys Next Door = Hee-Haw era "Birthday Party", Stew. People seem to be insisting this 'they're totally garage' stuff, maybe I need to hear 'em again. Do you still have that CD? And can I borrow it? It wasn't bad.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh or I'll just talk to you when I see you today or tomorrow or something.
(I'm talking to Lurks. Sorry people. </doofus> )
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
ask the guy who just married peaches geldof!
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
New album produced by Geoff Barrow according to DiS.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
He did a good job on The Coral's "Invisible Invasion" as a producer I think.
― zeus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Never knew he did it.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
new song 'sea within a sea'
― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
no one else like this? the intro is a total rip of can but i think the song is pretty good, decent progression from their first album
― vain_bowers, Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently Geoff Barrow of Portishead is involved in some capacity.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 20 March 2009 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
hoorah the next generation of record collector rock. at least theyve made it to the 70s now
― straightola, Friday, 20 March 2009 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link
omg this is actually kinda awesome
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
omit "kinda"
wow
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
after you revived this i listened to that like 10 times in a row. i'm really excited to hear the new album, especially knowing barrow is involved. hopefully it's still full of organ though.
― there's a big metaphor going on in which pussy is medicine (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i have been listening to it on repeat for about an hour and a half now...it's so addictive, like a euphoric, sonically maximalist postpunk/krautrock take on "The Rip" given 8 full minutes to play itself out
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
It's OK, good in places but I'd probably like it loads better if it didn't rip the backing off of "Mother Sky" in such a drearily slavish manner.
― Pashmina, Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
well obviously it isn't shy of hiding its influences, but yeah it works woohoo
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, rip off.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
cant wait to hear the album, even considering going to see them, apparently they have ditched the nme-friendly stage antics and mainly play their new stuff
― vain_bowers, Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
lol "The Rip (Off)"
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The bit at the end is actually really good. I might pick up the album when it's out. I never thought I'd say that about THE HORRORS! FFS.
The look of the band in the video is TOTALLY lifted from Loop, circa "Heavens End". I mean that could actually BE Loop, circa "Heaven's End", if you turn the music down a bit.
I am actually a bit sick of "isn't shy of hiding its influences", it gets in the way of the music, has done for a while.
Have you heard Loop "Fade Out", Louis? I sort of suspect you might like it a bit. They actually COVERED "Mother Sky" instead of knocking it off.
Loop "Heavens!" "End" ;)
― Pashmina, Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm completely with you on this, but for a band I thought were irredeemable, this is some startling proficiency and crucially they meld the influences in a fairly original (well, striking) way.
Not really heard Loop. Must rectify.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Here you go:
"Fade Out" is such a fucking good album, so relentless & mechanical in its feel. It's 20 years old.
― Pashmina, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Somewhere between surprised and amazed to find that the Horros were capable of this.
Actually, I don't believe they are capable of this, and maybe Barrow will do to them what Andy Weatherall did for Primal Scream.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i doubt they pull much of it off live anyhow
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
In the latest issue of Platform mag there's a picture of Faris's bedroom. Right at the front of his pile of records is Loop's A Gilded Eternity album. He also owns a golliwog.
The one time I saw the Horrors they were so boring and uncharismatic that I left during the second song. I'll be amazed if they can play that new track live.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Not really feeling that track. Too much crappy London scene post-punk and his vocals are unbearable.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"too much crappy london scene post-punk and the vocals are unbearable" prob will be what's carved on the gravestone of britisher rock music.
― Pashmina, Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I like this. I suppose it's in part because it surprised me too that a band I thought would just be some dull garage rock band forever are at least showing some ambition. It wasn't so much the first bit sounding like Can or Neu that got me, but more that the later bit sounds like Klaus Schulze. Different enough for me not to be bothered.
― Keith, Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
The second half (well, and the groovy FX-pedalled transition) is predominantly what wins my accolades and listenership, although the first sets it up well.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah me too, but it needs the build up to be effective.
― Keith, Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I said! :D Although now I'm finding myself, bass guitar slung, skipping to the four-minute mark and playing along.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe the album will just be them reinterpreting the whole of the last Portishead album in a Krautrock style.
Actually that would be kind of brilliant.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
This is still so epic...someone's suggested The Chameleons (and to be more precise "Second Skin") as a reference point...he isn't too far wide of the mark, I guess.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
take that back please
― rio (r1o natsume), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not my observation! I'm just reporting it, throwing it out there. Something about the backing synth right at the end, I suppose, and the fact it changes tack halfway thru
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
So, OK, this is way more interesting than I imagined The Horrors were capable of being, but even so, why the fucking god awful goth singing? Can no one groove AND have fun instead of being a doomy cunt?
Oh. SFA can. Class dismissed.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Interestingly, it's this vs. "Cardiff In The Sun" for my song of the year thus far, and they're both 8-minute Kraut-outs, the one all doomy, synthy and redemptive, the other all light, airy and utterly blissful
As for the vocals, you may have a point re: being perhaps a bit TOO wrapped up in their own dourness, but I think the vocal style works WITH the musical narrative, especially those buried out-of-tune vocals in the second half...they go from dour to completely lost, completely overwhelmed by sound...I think it works really nicely there.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Damo Suzuki didn't sound like a doomy cunt.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah but you gotta admit the vocal slight return amidst the synth storm is really well-executed
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The 80s electro keyboard in Sea Within A Sea is totally ace but I'm not mega thrilled by the rest of the album on initial listen
― Climate Of Basshunter (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 March 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I like it, especially the second part. Though I liked the first album too, it was good fun.
― zeus, Monday, 30 March 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, so you mean they've hit us with the trump card early on and they're kinda hoping the rest surfs on its wake?
Damn sweet trump card mind.
― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Monday, 30 March 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
'Who Can Say' is great, complete with po-faced spoken section!
Definitely hearing The Rip in Sea Within A Sea. And plenty of Psychedelic Furs and Chameleons in the rest of the albu,/
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i like 'primary colours', nothing groundbreakingly original but ive been enjoying listening to it
― vain_bowers, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
But didn't MBV come from a nasty goth background?
Not exactly?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the stone roses with a hangover
bahahahaha
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Any further opinions on this?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
My opinion - best British indie rock record of the last five years. I know that isn't saying much mind you.
― ch4rlie fr4m3, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:08 (fourteen years ago) link
All these Can comparisons, I think are overblown. The rest of the album sounds more like Magazine playing in Joy Division's studio.
― ch4rlie fr4m3, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
on acid?
― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
The rest of the album sounds like the Psychedelic Furs playing in White Lies' studio.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
This is actually pretty good. I'm impressed.
― Moka, Thursday, 2 July 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to it once through...thought it definitely had its moments, but couldn't really decide. Was planning to listen again, soon.
― He was feeling canonical (Bimble), Thursday, 2 July 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― meme muggin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Me having a mutter with Tom of said band.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 September 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i love this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EOPIi4Q3lM
― Bee OK, Thursday, 15 October 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
amazingly, this really has ended up one of the better albums of the year.
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thehorrors.co.uk/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
Simple Minds. That's disappointing.
― paulhw, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
Well, fuck.I liked the last one a lot, but mostly as a precursor to more of it, more refined "it".Not "this".
― THE Alan Moulder?!? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Who knew their career path would become that of the Delays.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't sound good, but maybe there'll be a cool video or naked album cover to balance things out
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
Cynic.
― THE Alan Moulder?!? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Cynic >>> The Horrors
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― henry s, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
(I'll probably still get this, though)
― henry s, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the morals of a tomcat and the manners of a wolf (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 May 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://thehorrors.co.uk/images/TheHorrorsSkying.jpg
― piscesx, Monday, 13 June 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
that video is cringeworthy and embarassing. gothgaze? i dont know what the fuck any more.
― jumpskins, Monday, 13 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Sea Within A Sea is still just such a great bit of music, right?
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Thursday, 5 March 2015 10:21 (nine years ago) link
Any love for the side project Cat's Eyes with Faris and Rachel Zeffira? New album "Treaure House" is evocative of Broadcast with a kraut twist ("Names on the Mountains") and Shangri-Las ("Drag") with other 60s influences and elements from Rachel's classical background. Highly recommended.
― Ross, Sunday, 5 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Well credit to them, they never seem to stay in the same place. Their new song is a full on exultant 80s synth-pop anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e38KoYlHDTA
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
I like this band
― calstars, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
in ghost colours
― nxd, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
surprised by how nice that is
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Never really listened to them before but enjoying the new album. Definite Cut Copy vibes
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 07:38 (six years ago) link
Last track is awesome.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
cat's eyes are wickedly underrated...probably should check out the horrors i guess
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Enjoyably bland
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Out.
The album's quite good and ending it on "Something To Remember Me By" is a smart touch. They are protean in a good way -- I remember seeing ads for their first album ten years back and while they haven't become avant-garde experimentalists or anything, they have a knack for setting their mind to try certain things that work more often than not, and they're definitely not the band they were. At their best they suggest a slight -- I emphasize slight -- equivalent to early to mid 80s Cure/Siouxsie in a key sense: trying different things within their pop form just to see if they can make it work. Very much looking forward to whenever the next tour might be -- they're only playing NYC for now.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
I hadnt checked them out since "Primary Colours", which I really liked a the time. The new stuff sounds nice, refers to a lot of my personal hall-of-famers and yet it all sounds so slight. A weird feeling that despite the fact that I *should* like this, it just seems very pointless
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
classic hair
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link