Thursday, 17 May 2012

The Horrors


We're very disappointed here at 'FA Cup Vinyl' as we forgot to buy our tickets to see one of our favourite new bands, The Horrors who played at The Leadmill in Sheffield last night.

As our friends were bragging about seeing them, we thought we would enjoy them one way or another by sitting down and listening to their finest album yet, 'Skying'. Take that Friends! 

The Horrors, from Southend on Sea were formed in 2005 and released their debut 'Strange House' in 2007. We recommend however that you do not listen that until you have listened to 'Skying' and 'Primary Colours' which is their second album, and also great as 'Strange House' in all honesty is not up to scratch with the other two. But we'll let you decide.

Anyway, back to the post.

It's a breath of fresh air listening to an album as good as 'Skying' and knowing it's from 2011, as it feels like a classic with its infectious guitar riffs and insanely catchy lyrics and choruses. It also gives us hope that the new music scene is not going to be full of One Direction, Justin Bieber manufactured garbage and that there is still some decent bands out there, a diamond in the very teenage girl aimed dribble rough if you will.

If you haven't listened to 'Skying'  yet then we suggest that you do.  According to wikipedia, it is defined as post-punk revival, non-psychedelia and shoe gazing... music. We're not sure of the last one either. But what we do know is the album is brilliant, it has some absolute crackers that you can let loose to, or whatever you do when listening to music.

Definite tracks to listen to are 'I Can See Through You', 'Still Life' and 'Monica Gems' for those of you who aren't patient enough to sit through a whole album, it these songs that are being categorised as and I hate the phrase 'festival anthems' but they are definitely ones for the summer playlist.

For those of you that are able to sit through a whole album, we are immediately reminded of the psychedelia it mentions, clearly taking influence from bands like Primal Scream. However the other songs which aren't as upbeat like 'Changing The Rain' and 'Oceans Burning' offer a very mellowed, chilled vibe.

Its the tracks like this that offer an insight into how good the latest offering by The Horrors is. The songs are different in direction and not all playing on the same structure like other bands like 'The Vaccines' or 'Two Door Cinema Club', not to say there's nothing wrong with doing that. 

We're not the only ones who agree this album is great, as it recently won album of the year at the 2012 NME Awards, so if you haven't listened to Faris Badwan and co yet, we recommend that you do immediately.

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