Returning London garage types The Horrors have stunned fans with their new material, and the band have given a new interview in which they explain their intense new sound.
The Horrors arrived amid a barrage of hype and dry ice. With a spectacular stage show, an inventive image and a clutch of great songs they seemed destined to be the next indie success story.
However debut album ‘Strange House’ failed to consolidate their early success. Released in 2007, the material felt rather lifeless on record, robbed of the band’s incredible stage presence. Numbed from criticism, The Horrors returned to running their long running London club night, with two members indulging themselves in a proto-electronica side project.
The band returned earlier this year, giving fans the hugely ambitious track ‘Sea Within A Sea’ as a free download. Word quickly spread – this was The Horrors, alright, but not as we knew them. Expansive and exquisite, the track showcases an album that some critics are already touting as one of the best of the year.
In a new interview with NME keyboard player Spider Webb explains that the group recorded the album in a windowless room, which drove them close to the edge.
“We’d begun to question our sanity,” he reveals. “We were just lost in this world, in this place for months that didn’t have any windows. We didn’t have any involvement with (record label) XL – there was no A&R man telling us what to do – and we didn’t play the music we were making to anyone, not even to our friends. So it got to the point where we’d start to question what we were doing.”
Continuing he said “We wouldn’t want to just be a conventional guitar group. We felt like we could and did try most things on this record. We’re all really interested in psychedelic sounds and mindbending sounds and pushing things in a different way.”
The Horrors release their new album ‘Primary Colours’ on May 5th. Read our thoughts on the album HERE!
