The Horrors - Primary Colours
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Artist: The HorrorsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: Beggars Xl Recording
Soundtracks:
- 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
Free Music Notes for Primary Colours
Free Music Review: New to The Horrors, come for the art, stay for the punk
Hit: 5 Stars
Originally I purchased Primary Colors during the Amazon equivalent of browsing an old record store -- the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..." listing. Notably, I had just purchased The Big Pink A Brief History of Love and A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head, and The Horrors had more than one in the list. A quick listen of the samples for Primary Colors was instantly gratifying. I bought it for the slow driving My Bloody Valentine similarity guitar riffs along with the accompanying 70's-80's sounding organ, both droning and beat producing in various songs. I stayed for the clear vocals, in my mind, not unlike TV21 Snakes & Ladders, Almost Complete: 1980-82 -- a long lost band of the 80's but on a come back (if you really like The Horrors, do yourself a favor and listen to Snakes and Ladders! TV21 also has a myspace site). Or the many bands Ian Broudie was part of... the 70's punk scene. The choppy beats might also remind listeners of early 80's Wire. These multiple similarities and references make The Horrors both familiar and, at the same time, brand new.
The way I listen to music is random. I let my CD player or ipod present familiar and unfamiliar music to me outside of the normal album format. Listening to music hours on end during the day or while driving is sometimes background, but when something catches my interest, I stop to listen. The Horrors produced this effect multiple times.... "hey what is this? I really like it!" Notably, "New Ice Age" with its electronic intro to (a term reviewer C. Poehler used here, that I am going to use...) ... "art punk". That describes much of this music--art being electronic, even ambient and progressive rock trappings, mixed with the rawness of punk. The first song on the album "Mirror's Image" is much like this, the ambience of electronics moving into a swirling Wire-like keyboard and vocals. "Three Decades" and "Do You Remember" has super hints of MBV on the droning swirls of tremolo guitars. The song "Primary Colors" reminds me of the poppy 80's along the lines of The Human League or the Thompson Twins.
Primary Colors is a fantastic album that has led me to move backwards and purchase the rest of The Horrors albums. While Primary Colors is certainly the best produced and consistent of the back catalog, I am being rewarded with some great music from Strange House.... In short, given all of the above references to a variety of styles and bands... if you like any or all of the mentioned bands you will find The Horrors both imbedded in your musical memories, and innovative enough to grease some new paths..... Just buy it!
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Their debut "Strange House" was as controversial as it was celebrated, landing them on the cover of NME in their native England and garnering 15K scans in America. This is their first album for XL. Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and noted video director Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin, Bjork). Look for them on the road with The Kills this springAlternative Rock Music CDs
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