Commenced? A possible follow up to 'Street Horrrsing'?

As in... finished? As in everything is recorded? As in new album?
Well it's been 3 years hasn't it?

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Dracula Birthday

I wonder what the typical 'Happy Birthday' song would sound like under the control of Brian and Brian of Lightning Bolt.

(SOMEBODY TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION.)

The Horrors 'Primary Colours'

Back in 2007, British goth-garage band The Horrors released their first album Strange House. It was great at the time, I was in fact pretty obsessed with them for a while, but I have to admit the album didn't really quench my thirst entirely. The first single 'Sheena is a Parasite' (whose video is directed by nonother than Chris-Fucking-Cunningham) is properly brilliant, opening with what you might think is a hellicopter and just exploding from there. And the rest of the album isn't bad by any means whatsoever.

Their sophmore album Primary Colours is out May 4th, and showcases a new, more refined sound. There's still plenty of flashy drums, vibrating guitar riffs, janky organs, and aching vocals, but there's also the presence of a kind of ambient force. The Horrors wouldn't be the only band this year to start relying more on synths (coughYeahYeahYeahscough), but I have to say it really really works for them. It is very aparent through the first track ('Mirror's Image', which starts out rather dreamlike) to 'Sea Within a Sea', the first single and Seventeen Seconds-esque album finisher.

In short, the garage raucous has been toned down but the instinct to dance like an 80's goth rocker has been doubled. If you're me that's a good thing, but take it as you will.

Listen to Primary Colours in it's entirety at: http://www.nme.com/news/the-horrors/44240