Primary Colours

Much-derided and hyped UK band takes an unexpected, and rewarding, left turn on its second album. Portishead's Geoff Barrow co-produces.

The Horrors broke out because of what they weren’t: The band’s screeching, unhinged garage-punk—backed by its vampires-on-a-coke-bender image—was a defiant gob of morbidity hocked in the face of all the Snow Patrols and Coldplays turning England’s kitchen-sink frustrations into dishwater mopiness. Primary Colours…

The Horrors have defied all expectation and delivered the most satisfying surprise that 2009 is likely to deliver.

<p>Who could have guessed they would metabolise their influences with such bold panache, asks <strong>Dorian Lynskey</strong></p>

Album Reviews: The Horrors - Primary Colours

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