Posted March 17, 200916 yr First single from their forthcoming second album has been produced by one of the Portishead men and is 7 minutes long, it be called 'Sea Without a Sea'. As seems to be the trend with UK indie this year it's very bloody good and a bit of a reinvention. First Jack Peñate now The Horrors, which rubbish British "indie" act will return with an excellent reinvention?!
March 18, 200916 yr All of them if they've any sense. I threw my Penate promo in my chuck out pile - maybe I should give it a listen.
March 19, 200916 yr 'Sea Within A Sea' is <3 In musical terms 2009 > 2008 by an absolute mile so far \o/
March 21, 200916 yr Interesting, if the whole album's like this, it'll be pretty top.... But I saw nothing wrong with The Horrors' debut album tbh.... Kind of a trashy, primitive sort of Gallon Drunk/Cramps, 50s horror B-movie vibe... Personally, I rather liked it....
March 21, 200916 yr hmm musically it is pretty good, especially compared to their older stuff but i find it a bit... boring to start with, it takes a while to start up, when it does thought it gets pretty good. I perfer his shouty voive though tbh, but then again a shouty voice wouldnt work with a track like that. I well hate there were-kewl-coz-we-went-2-an-art-skool image though, and i hate the sort of fans they have attracted (i.e NME kids) but those fans have proberly moved on now as The Horrors have been about for over a month. I used to be quite into there old stuff, only ever got the EP though, and 'Count In Fives' is still a tune but i have sort of gone off them now.
March 21, 200916 yr I well hate there were-kewl-coz-we-went-2-an-art-skool image though, and i hate the sort of fans they have attracted (i.e NME kids) You probably would've hated the 80s New Romantics and Goths then..... :lol: Nothing wrong with being a bit pretentious, just have the actual music to back it up.... The Horrors, to be fair to them, mostly do, unlike, say the absolute over-rated toss that is White Lies, and Editors aint all they're cracked up to be either.... The sorts of fans they attracted seriously put me off going to any future Horrors gigs... I was expecting (well, more hoping...) a bunch of Cramps fans or psychobilly/goths to show up.... Unfortunately, it was a bunch of sh!tty, snot-nosed little NME "haircut" kids, who all shot me looks like I was the one who shouldn't be there (yeah, right, cos I wasn't listening to this sort of thing when these little c/unts were swimming around in their daddies' ball-bags :rolleyes: ) ...... Sometimes a bands' fans can really spoil a good gig..... :rolleyes:
March 21, 200916 yr You probably would've hated the 80s New Romantics and Goths then..... :lol: Nothing wrong with being a bit pretentious, just have the actual music to back it up.... The Horrors, to be fair to them, mostly do, unlike, say the absolute over-rated toss that is White Lies, and Editors aint all they're cracked up to be either.... The sorts of fans they attracted seriously put me off going to any future Horrors gigs... I was expecting (well, more hoping...) a bunch of Cramps fans or psychobilly/goths to show up.... Unfortunately, it was a bunch of sh!tty, snot-nosed little NME "haircut" kids, who all shot me looks like I was the one who shouldn't be there (yeah, right, cos I wasn't listening to this sort of thing when these little c/unts were swimming around in their daddies' ball-bags :rolleyes: ) ...... Sometimes a bands' fans can really spoil a good gig..... :rolleyes: yep that is exactly the sort of crowd that were at The Horrors gig i went to in 2007 (f*** that was ages ago now) but yeah that sort of crowd tend to move on to a different band (proberly White Lies now) quite fast, just tend to follow what the NME says. But i very doubt that sort of crowd will like this new track so they proberly wont care anymore :lol:
March 22, 200916 yr Author I very much doubt the tweeny NME set will buy into an eight minute long krautrock/synth/drone track. Well a few might, given it's what? Going on three years since The Horrors were rather big, those fans will have aged and some matured in terms of music taste. But that's benevolent, this song is more likely to enamour them to an entirely different music fan. I have high hopes for the record considering Mr Portishead has produced it all. It's going to be weird though, when seeing them live playing such subversive and almost paradoxical material back-to-back. They've toned down their image to smart so can they really go by names such as "Faris Rotter" now? :s Oh and I think they deserve "kudos" for changing direction so notably, it'd have been only too easy (and very very predictable) to have gone down the whole new romantic/shock rock/gore route...
March 22, 200916 yr I very much doubt the tweeny NME set will buy into an eight minute long krautrock/synth/drone track. Well a few might, given it's what? Going on three years since The Horrors were rather big, those fans will have aged and some matured in terms of music taste. But that's benevolent, this song is more likely to enamour them to an entirely different music fan. I have high hopes for the record considering Mr Portishead has produced it all. It's going to be weird though, when seeing them live playing such subversive and almost paradoxical material back-to-back. They've toned down their image to smart so can they really go by names such as "Faris Rotter" now? :s Oh and I think they deserve "kudos" for changing direction so notably, it'd have been only too easy (and very very predictable) to have gone down the whole new romantic/shock rock/gore route... That's probably very true to be fair.... I usually get a bit suspicious when bands "change direction", usually it's in order to jump on a bandwagon (eg, The Rasmus rather shamelessly jumping on the HIM/Manson bandwagon and changing from day-glo Poppy "punk" stuff to the "darker", "goffick" image of "Dead Letters"), but I dont see this really being the case with The Horrors.... If anything, this will probably totally alienate the "NME crowd", which cant be a bad thing.... I might even go to another of their gigs if they manage to jettison the snotty brat brigade who looked down their noses at me and my mates even though the sort of Cramps/Dead Kennedys/Meteors Psychobilly-type stuff they did on the first album, was exactly what us lot grew up with.... :lol:
March 22, 200916 yr the track is really growing on me now. If the whole album is similar, including the slower tempo than the old stuff i really wonder how they will play there old stuff with there new stuff, the live show must be quite different now aswell with a change of direction. they did have a good act when i saw them, the set a firework off onstage and almost got thrown out the venue :lol: and although it was all like indie scene kid crowd, it was a quite mental crowd. if they play Reading this year i may go and see them.
March 22, 200916 yr the track is really growing on me now. If the whole album is similar, including the slower tempo than the old stuff i really wonder how they will play there old stuff with there new stuff, the live show must be quite different now aswell with a change of direction. they did have a good act when i saw them, the set a firework off onstage and almost got thrown out the venue :lol: and although it was all like indie scene kid crowd, it was a quite mental crowd. Hmm, maybe the Indie crowd are different where you live mate... Here in London, they all seem totally up their own arses...... :lol:
March 27, 200916 yr I'm not gonna pretend that i love it :P. Like Chris said; musically, its very good. The best part is the outtro imo.
March 30, 200916 yr :zzz: Anything Portishead do is boring tbf. :mellow: Have you even LISTENED to Machine Guns? The Rip? Anything BUT boring.
March 30, 200916 yr :mellow: Have you even LISTENED to Machine Guns? The Rip? Anything BUT boring. What IS so good about 'The Rip'? I've listened to it lots of times and it bores me to death each time. I just do not get the Portishead fuss.
March 30, 200916 yr What IS so good about 'The Rip'? I've listened to it lots of times and it bores me to death each time. I just do not get the Portishead fuss. It's a bloody musical journey! Beth's haunting voice, the conversion from a dreamy track into a mechanical one, THAT drum breakdown before the synth echo fading out - it's epic defined! :/
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