the horrors appreciation thread

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I know.

She just comes home with all this "I'm tired, ooh the baby is heavy". She's not even famous in our house and we are the only two people that live in it.

 

[rutabowa]

sometimes i get bored with the press attention though, have you thought about that.

 

[Tank Girl]

I dunno why you bother.

 

[milesy]

i got their album yesterday - first day of release, woohoo, worra fan :-B - and i have to say it's very good. well, what i've heard of it is, cos i've stuck it striaght onto my ipod and haven't had a proper listen all the way through, yet. i shalll do that when i get home from work. i suggest you all get a copy.

 

[Dubversion]

it is pretty good. Not groundbreaking or owt, but not bad at all

 

[damnhippie]

blehh, seemed like an average garage band to me....fair play to them, though, they're getting about the place.

i'm still bitter 'cause my lot played with them ages ago and now they're famous and we're not. lousy beatniks.

 

[rutabowa]

ooh ooh i was at their album launch party last night. i got 2 free drinks and a badge, livin la vida loca!! it was actually pretty fun.

 

[Dubversion]

that said, 80sMBLD were better for that sort of thing. but at every stage in musical history we need a psychobilly inspired band with big hair make us remember why we bother.

yep, the first time i ever saw them my jaw dropped. A mentalist doing pressups with a voice like Pete Murphy over mental thrashabilly. How could I not love them?

 

[milesy]

How could I not love them?

maybe if they called your pint a big cream puff or spilt your bird?

 

[Dubversion]

 

[dodgepot]

bumping an old thread to say that the horrors new album is very good indeed. although it's quite a la mode with all the feedback and shoegazing vibe.

 

[rutabowa]

i quite liked the bit of the new song that i heard, it is nice that they've tried something a bit different.

 

[dodgepot]

yeah, it's a bit of a departure from the first album. less shouty.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm struggling with this one.

 

[dodgepot]

well i can't stop playing it

anyone seen them recently? are they still doing annoyingly short sets? i'd like to go and see them again but not if they're just gonna do 20 minutes and then fuck off. maybe now they've got more material they might be able to fill the show out a bit

 

[butchersapron]

I've turned the corner with it now - took some effort though.

 

[rutabowa]

i just tried to look them up on Spotify, apparently there was another band called the Horrors doing the same kind of music who had albums out in 2000 and 2003, but from america, is that right?

 

[dodgepot]

yes

http://www.xomba.com/the_horrors_and_the_horrors

 

[matt m]

I'm not sure about the new Horrors. Only heard the single, but I don't really hear any Krautrock/shoegaze in it. Sounded a bit Joy Divisiony to me, 80s gloom jangle, not my bag at all.

However, I really like Spider & The Flies, their synthy spin-off project. It's all very White Noise/Alan Hawkshaw/BBC Radiophonic Workshop type stuff.

 

[dodgepot]

ooh i'm not aware of that, i'll have to check it out, cheers

 

[matt m]

they did an album called "Something Clockwork this way Comes":

http://www.myspace.com/spiderandtheflies

 

[Sunspots]

What I've heard of The Horrors' new stuff has Geoff Barrow's fingerprints all over it. Likewise, Barry 7's influence is clearly there with Spider & The Flies. In both cases, I think that ought to be considered a good thing.

(-Maybe The Horrors are going to be one of those bands like Primal Scream, who'll sound completely different each album, depending on who they're collaborating with at the time? -So much so, that you've got to wonder sometimes just how much input the band themselves might actually have?... )

 

[Clair De Lune]

Cheers to this thread, enjoying them

 

[dodgepot]

i just tried to look them up on Spotify, apparently there was another band called the Horrors doing the same kind of music who had albums out in 2000 and 2003, but from america, is that right?

just listening to them now - much more on the psychobilly angle than the essex the horrors

might have to d/l some as it happens

 

[BEARBOT]

i saw spider and the flies at a free gig at the old blue last last year...very high energy,fun band

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Just listening to it now - it's got some great tracks on it. A bit too 80s Goth at times though. Still, better than most of what else is out there.

 

[cliche guevara]

I'd always dismissed this band as a bit of a joke, but after reading some very positive reviews of their new effort I've downloaded it and am really enjoying it

 

[miniGMgoit]

Oh, I like thier guitar sound. Did a bit of reading and the guitarist has taken to building his own fx pedals which would go somewhere towards explaining the rather strange sound he makes. Yeah I know, its a bit MBV but its also very different.
I also like the speed of thier songs. Keeps them from sounding to dirgey. Thesingers voice has an 80's quality to it too.
Quite suprised by the album actually.
Now if only they could ditch the stupid hair

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I quite like the horrors. Also loving a place to bury strangers.

 

[Silva]

Terrific album. I've always kind of dismissed them as NME joke scenesters, but Primary Colours is shockingly one of the best records of the year, and I'll go as far as saying it's one of the best this decade in British "indie". Whoever introduced them to the Kitchens of Distinction should be well pleased with the result