The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

I had heard so many good things about this album before I had got round to listening to it myself for review, however my main hesitation was that it was music you had to get into. In some respects it was, and in others it was completely the other way round, it got into me. It literally floated around my head refusing to budge in place of where usually the most annoying, cheesy, irritating advert song would happily live. What a refreshing change. I was craving to listen to it within a day.

Each song blends perfectly into the next in a gorgeous journey of garage rock, lo fi punk and soft crescendo building melancholy rich ambiance. To simply class this band as 'goth' is pretty ignorant in my opinion, there is just so much intense musicianship hidden underneath the muted production and are a million other great musical descriptions than the one dimensional 'goth' they are usually tarnished with.

Stand out track and perfectly placed as second to last track on the album, is album title track 'Primary Colours'. It instantly picks up the mood and is deliciously peppy in an almost 80's high school prom way, albeit tinged with regret – dare I say it but it actually reminded me a great deal of The Psychedellic Furs 'Pretty in Pink'.

However, my overall favourite from the entire album is “Who Can See”, the song is so infectious it wouldn't leave my head and I even ironically thought it was a bit "cringe" with the talking bit on initial listen, but now I utterly adore it; it's like Frankie Valli on depressants. Honestly.

An amazing album and the more I listen to it the more little things jump out and hit me and leave me in astonishment of its sheer perfectness, but for now I will say it is simply a modern day masterpiece.

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours
 

From everything I have read about this album, and one of the tracks I have heard, The Horrors may well have produced THE suprise second album of recent years. Just when everyone had ritten them off too.

I actually have this album - just not gotten around to listening to it all yet as I know it's not an album you can just stick on when you have a spare 20 minutes. I wanna give it the time I hear it deserves.

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours
 

where have you read the good press on this album mike?

Their image just put me off, i never even listened to the first album

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

Well the few I have read:

A 7.6 on Pitchfork (that's a great score for a British NME favourite from them)
A 9/10 from DIS.
"Genuinely, really, very, very good indeed, people. Hell, even an album of the year." - BBC (they don't give scores)

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

9 out of ten for DIS, umm. I think this is a definite buy just to see what they are talking about.

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

I've a friend who's the music director for the local college station around here. We were going through all the promotional shit that comes in every week, four a.m., and we came across this one. I was instantly into it. They've got this treble pushing distortion, creating such a strange aura. It reminds me a lot of the shitgaze style coming up from bands like A Place To Bury Starngers, and No Age.

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"shitgaze style" - did you just make that up?

I usually hear No Age described as no wave.

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

Yep, this album's amazing. Heron, you'd definitely love it, loads of distorted atmospheric music.

Re: The Horrors - Primary Colours [Album]
 

I'll definitely give it some time after my latest batch of reviews.