Primary Colours | Loppylugs

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 16 February 2013 - 10:03pm

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The Horrors

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Track-listing:

Mirror’s Image*Three Decades*Who Can Say*Do You Remember*New Ice Age*Scarlet Fields*I Only Think of You*I Can’t Control Myself*Primary Colours*Sea Within a Sea

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Bean

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Tuesday, 23 June 2009

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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

emperors new shoegazing

I quite liek this album, although it is very much a Frankenstein monster of other bands. Being young and good looking, they might do a job of introducing 'the kids' to their precursors like My Bloody Valentine, but they can't compete with the pioneers yet. Some good sounds on the album, and they have actually written some tunes. I can happily listen to this, and will be interested to hear what they do next, this only being their 2nd album.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

The album has been nominated for a Mercury Prize

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Various aspects to this album came through, some of which I appreciated and some of which I didn't. There were some nicely effective distorted / overdriven background guitar textures. And a great background distorted organ sound to I Only Think of You. But there were also a few songs that had dreary big old crash bash rock drums, typical of the Goth sound that is pretty irratating to me - drums pounding the 2nd and 4th beats and bass on every note. There were also some electronic sequencing patterns on the first and last songs, these worked quite nicely and broke up the sound a bit. However I couldn't help thinking of The Who and Baba O'Reilly, a song from 30 years ago which had a much more impressive sound doing the same sort of thing. That probably took some poor studio engineer a week to set up - these arpeggioed sequences are really so fantistically easy to do nowadays you'd have to say what the Horrors do here is wholly unimaginative and unambitious in comparison.

Listeners to the album are cordially invited to partake in a round of ‘Spot the Influence’. I went for some Joy Division and Cult, singing like the bloke out of Psychedelic Furs, and a bit of early Fall in the shape of New Ice Age. How did I score?

All in all, I’m not convinced about a Mercury nomination for this, but still worth a listen.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury

I like the strong attitude. And good to see a bit of goth resurfacing. Generally an unpleasant sound but song 6, Scarlet Fields, is a corker.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

The Horrors - Horrible © R.Norbury

Exciting powerful sounds and good use of spooky droning feedback effects, but overall no tracks really stand out. The vocals are a bit 'goth' for my tastes.