Nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘Strange House’, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. The Horrors are set to return to our stages as special guests for our 20th birthday party, following their appearance headlining in 2018, This follows the announcement of their first album in 7 years ‘Night Life’, set for release on 21st March, with a new configuration of the band. Their recent release ‘Trial By Fire’ described by CLASH as ‘’A Gothic journey through East London environs after midnight’’, gives a taste of what audiences can expect, and we can’t wait to hear more!
2011’s ‘Skying’ won the NME Award for Best Album; ‘V’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star Guardian review, while 2021’s pair of EPs – ‘Lout’ and ‘Against The Blade’ – marked a visceral new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.
Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause.
The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly.
They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity.
And so, whilst sixth album ‘Night Life’ sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.
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