The Horrors - Primary Colours + Bonus CD

You know when you go see a toilet-circuit gig (4 groups for £5 down the local boozer) and you see a group that takes it's influences totally out of socio-political context (ELP keyboards/Madness horns/Joy Division vocals all mixed together)?  

Don't get me wrong, I'not saying that's a bad thing  . . . more like they do stuff that I (been going to gigs for over 30 years now) could never conceive of doing . . . but for them it's all lumped together as "musical history" 

Anyway, this lots 2nd album gets it right, and it really pisses me off that a band so young can produce a sound so good.

Made notes while playing Medieval Total War II (succeeded in taking out the French!) . . . 

1) Lush guitars

2) JMYC

3) Echoey vocals (Bauhaus?)

4) Phil Spector

5) Early industrial punk (Fall????)

6) Shoegazing

The bonus CD is very different and is an absolute must-have imo. Very difficult to catagorise, can find nowt about it on t'interweb, best guess is that it's a mix-tape by someone who visits the Castels In Space blog too regularly for there own good (that's a compliment btw).

Primary Colours

Bonus CD