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After nearly 20 years making music, 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 sharp left turn for their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed freely between genres. 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 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.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: There aren't many other bands that have been as consistently present in my life over the last 20 years as The Horrors. I vividly remember the big hair and the raucous live shows that accompanied their debut in 2007; but with every release they changed (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot) and with every release they matured (and so did I!) And while I didn't love every new album immediately, those I initially disliked are now among my all-time favourites. In a way, it feels like The Horrors, like a big brother who has seen the world, ready to pass on their wisdom, were showing me the way during my arguably most formative years. The haunting ‘Night Life', more industrial and electronic than its predecessor, has also been a grower, but it wouldn't be The Horrors if they didn't manage to convince me that it was time for them to move on - and that it was worth it! Here's to the next 20 years.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Ariel
2. Silent Sister
3. The Silence That Remains
4. Trial By Fire
5. The Feeling Is Gone

SIDE B
6. Lotus Eater
7. More Than Life
8. When The Rhythm Breaks
9. L.A. Runaway