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| Contactmusic |
 The Horrors second album is a tricky proposition, particularly for music snobs like myself. It requires the shedding of a facade used to dismiss bands like the one who created Strange House, the London-based five piece's debut album; that a label of 'derivative' is enough to warrant a low score and subsequent shunning. The bands sophomore effort is just as derivative as its predecessor, if not more so, and yet it is infinitely stronger and rewarding.Some will say the band have hopped onto the rising popularity of shoegaze and krautrock, brought by the return of Portishead, whose Geoff Barrow takes on production duties, and My Bloody Valentine. They are probably right; 'The Horrors' is such a massive left step that it hardly feels like natural progression, with its cavernous walls of sound and near-eight minute drones....full text |
| Drownedinsound |
| The surprise appearance of The Horrors' new single, 'Sea Within a Sea', has come as quite a shock to the vast majority who dismissed the band during their initial hype-fuelled rise. Where screaming excess and over the top clobber once held sway, the single’s video reveals a group of sombre aesthetes brooding over their instruments as they coolly erect an epic, eight minute wall of sound that slaps a motorik pulse onto the early 4AD catalogue, before slowly immersing it into a bubbling pool of kosmiche noise. All this from a band who, until recently, were more famous for their tight trousers and haircuts than anything heard on their freakbeat inspired debut. Strange House wasn’t the turgid, forgettable affair some claimed it to be, but its punk-tinged, Screaming Lord Sutch antics and horror show B-movie shtick - a trick already perfected by The Cramps’ Lux Interior and Poison Ivy in the late ‘70s – lacked the weight needed to make a lasting impression on the wider landscape....full text |
| Thefourohfive |
| Well kids, this is the one you’ve all been waiting for. The Horrors follow up to the much maligned Strange House illuminates the merit of ripping up the formula and starting again. Quite literally this album blows away the cobwebs, melts down the vinyl copies of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era and removes the ‘scary’ makeup with the graceful swipe of a Pampers wet wipe . When the first single ‘Sea Within A Sea’ arrived flaunting a motorik pace, the chin scratchers were proclaiming that The Horrors would be leading a krautrock revival, tempting us to once more delve deep into the back catalogue of Amon Düül II. Actually the sound of the album tends to lean closer towards eighties noise pop and shoegaze. Undeniably Primary Colours is a more credible, focussed piece of work than its predecessor, rendering Strange House childishly cartoonish in comparison. Portishead’s Geoff Barrow plays the Eno role with a few choice soundscapes borrowed from the second side of Bowie’s Low. His production is gorgeous, channelling drone and distortion into fervent channels of atmospheric desperation....full text |
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