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
http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I am listening to this album again now. I really want to like it more than I do! It does sound quite a lot like Loop, albeit if they'd never listened to any heavy rock records
― National Lampoon's Minimal House (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
This album is sounding pretty great actually, but the 'ZOMG they have ripped up the rulebook and thrown it out of the window!' hype is going to be insufferable. As a patchwork of very obvious influences though it's enjoyable enough.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 April 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Despite being slavishly derivative, I did quite like their first EP. Full first album wasn't bad, but can't remember the last time I played it.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 11 April 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Citation from the DiS review: "The Horrors have done the one thing no other hyped to the heavens British guitar band has been able to do in the past ten years; they’ve given birth to a sophomore album that drastically improves upon its predecessor"
Discuss. But perhaps they're right.
― zeus, Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting. Hard to think of exceptions right now. I was underwhelmed by their first album. First listen of the new one was entertaining, if just for the spot-the-unexpected-influence game. Sounds like Geoff Barrow had some fun injecting some inspiration. Still seems a bit awkward and silly to me, which means it's probably going to be a huge mega-seller. It's fun, maybe I'll enjoy repeated listens, we'll see.
Slavering review: http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-horrors-primary-colours
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Some talk about the new album here:
New album by the Horrors out today....
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
General consensus: pretty interesting.
I missed that revive from a month ago. Liked that video a lot better than what I had heard from the previous album. A pretty faceless take on Can like others were sayin, but surprisingly enjoyable. But I guess if I wanted Can w/o Damo Suzuki there are actual Can albums w/o Damo Suzuki...
― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:33 (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