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Britain’s The Horror’s have just released a new video for the track “Mirror’s Image” off of the epically dark and dreamy Primary Colours. If you were looking for that insane amount of sensory overload to push your Tuesday to the next level then here ya go:
mp3: The Horrors – Mirror’s Image
Primary Colours is out now via XL.
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Memory Tapes, the glorious hybrid of Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette, produced one of my favorite tracks this year in “Bicycle” from the forthcoming debut Seek Magic. Now the track is receiving the remix treatment and first up is The Horrors and their cosmic dub version. I spoke of The Horrors and their new album Primary Colours back in May and how their sound was a blend of punk and rain drenched melancholy. Well they bring one half of that to the remix…literally. This rained out track (I say that because rain sounds permeate the bulk of it) melds perfectly with Baltimore and the summer thunderstorms that seem to erupt everyday. The remix is fairly calm and meditative until about half way through when some magical electronics wrap their hands around the heart of the song.
mp3: Memory Tapes – Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
and some more from all the parts that helped make these tracks:
mp3: Memory Cassette – Asleep At A Party
mp3: Weird Tapes – Christmas Break
mp3: The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
Britain’s The Horrors are back with a new album, Primary Colours, a long awaited follow up to their heralded debut Strange House. Primary Colours was recorded last summer with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow which seems to be paying off extremely in the epic sound department. The Horrors combine a rough punk attitude with a darker post punk rain storm of style. Primary Colours has them going into the heart of the storm coming out with a stadium sized wall of sound behind them. The album opens with a trance like stream of light buoyed sounds before the bass line rolls in…then the drums explode and the journey begins for “Mirror’s Edge”. Then “Three Decades” bursts with energy and sweeping tremolo guitars. The rest of Primary Colours follows suit with big sounds and tough vocals that remind me one instant of The Clash, Interpol the next, Longwave the next, and Glasvegas the next. The highlight comes on the last track (though I am a fan of “Scarlet Fields” – perhaps a pun on “Strawberry Fields” like their previous album had the track “Sheena Is A Parasite”) and first single from the album “Sea Within A Sea”. Clocking in at over 7 minutes this song is filled with and motor of a beat and lovely scratchy guitars that don’t even sound like guitars. Once the synths come in halfway through the track along with Faris Badwan’s slightly delayed and extremely reverbed vocals I was sucked in completely.
mp3: The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
mp3: The Horrors – Scarlet Fields
Primary Colours is out on May 5th via XL and you can stream it on XL’s site right now.
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