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The Horrors have revealed the promo video for new track ‘So Now You Know’ today. The video has frontman Faris Badwan soaking up the rays in the LA desert and features a variety of people having a variety of revelatory experiences (taking the song’s title a bit literally). The whole look and feel of the […]
The Horrors Luminous XL Recordings; 2014 Release date: 5 May 2014 Preorder Luminous Rating: 5/5 If you’re wondering what makes The Horrors stand out from the current crop of guitar-toting UK ‘indie-rock’ acts, then this quote from frontman Faris Badwan regarding why the release of Luminous was delayed will explain it: We basically […]
A new non-profit festival called Chazzstock will take place for the first time this summer in Leicestershire and feature The Horrors and The Vaccines as headliners. Chazzstock will take place over the weekend of 9 and 10 of June and was set up to honour the late musician Charles Haddon, who passed away in 2010. […]
The Horrors’ keyboardist Tom Cowan has announced that the band are close to finishing their fourth album – the follow-up to 2011’s unbelievably good ‘Skying’. Speaking to NME about the recording sessions for the as-yet-untitled album, Cowan said: It’s going really well, we’re most of the way there in terms of getting the songs together. And […]
Last month The Horrors finally announced their fourth album Luminous, and revealed it will be out on 6 May through XL Recordings. They followed up the announcement with the release of the excellent lead single ‘I See You‘, which seemed like a massive statement from the band as they look to take the next logical […]
The Horrors have today released the, erm, colourful video for ‘Changing The Rain’ – the next single to be taken from their awesome, award winning album Skying. Check out the psychedelic promo below and let us know what you think in the comments at the bottom. As well as the cool video, which was directed […]
Number one in our run down of the top albums of 2011 unsurprisingly goes to The Horrors, for their rich, textured and nuanced third album Skying. After a spot of label trouble the Southend band decided to go it on their own and produced Skying themselves – a decision which led to them making an album […]
The Horrors – Skying After their first album failed to live up to all that ‘most exciting new band’ hype, The Horrors kind of dropped off the radar as everyone looked elsewhere for trendy, big-haired, skinny jeaned rockers to provide the next new exciting sound. The ironic thing is, if everyone had stuck around […]
After their pretty amazing third album Skying, which I liked so much I made it my album of the year, all eyes and ears are on what The Horrors do next. Back in March we heard their fourth album was nearing completion and had a tentative release date of September, and now bassist Rhys Webb […]
A new month always brings a host of great new albums to look forward to, and May is no different. Last month saw big new releases from Damon Albarn, Pixies, Eels and Nas, amongst others, and May is looking even better. Below I’ve listed all of the albums worth getting excited about this month – […]