Strange House
For the NME cover darlings The Horrors, who hide behind layers of goth posturing and hateful stage antics, image obviously comes first. The group's full-length debut, Strange House, almost seems like an afterthought, so it's a surprise that it delivers on more than just shock value. Harkening back to every…
On their singles and EPs, the Horrors proved they'd done their post-punk and freakbeat homework.
The last time Gigwise gave a negative review to Southend's finest goth clothes-horses The Horrors (" Over indulgent fashionably out of tune music… pretentious fucking haircuts and a musically elitist aesthetic") they threatened to scalp – or at least furiously backcomb – one of our journalists.
There is no doubt that the Horrors are going to be a strongly divisive proposition.