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"Genuinely, gloriously deranged" --The Onion

"One of the 100 bands you need to know" --Alternative Pres

Product Description
Their debut "Strange House" was as controversial as it was celebrated, landing them on the cover of NME in their native England and garnering 15K scans in America. This is their first album for XL. Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and noted video director Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin, Bjork). Look for them on the road with The Kills this spring.

1. Mirror's Image
2. Three Decades
3. Who Can Say
4. Do You Remember
5. New Ice Age
6. Scarlet Fields
7. I Only Think Of You
8. I Can't Control Myself
9. Primary Colours
10. Sea Within A Sea

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The Horrors announce second album producer
Cult video director to produce band's new opus

March 14, 2008
http://www.nme.com/news/the-horrors/35166



The Horrors have revealed they will record their second album with video director Chris Cunningham.

Cunningham, best know for directing music videos for Bjork and Aphex Twin, will produce a record for the first time.

Speaking to XFM, the band's frontman Faris Rotter explained: "He (Cunningham) hasn't done music production before but I think it'll be really special. The results so far are really encouraging."

Rotter also commented on Cunningham’s inexperience.

He said: "That's what so brilliant about it - he won't approach things in the way that so many people will. He's really into the music we like: y'know – My Bloody Valentine, Dead Can Dance and Squarepusher and I think he's gonna bring something to the new album that no one else will."

The as yet untitled follow up to 2007’s 'Strange House' is due out this autumn.

The Horrors: 'Pret A Manger and darkness inspired album'
The band also appear on Google Street View

March 23, 2009
http://www.nme.com/news/the-horrors/43635



The Horrors' Faris Badwan has revealed that the band's second album 'Primary Colours' was inspired by sandwich retailer Pret A Manger.

Speaking to NME.COM, the singer said that with album sessions underway, bassist-turned-keyboard player Tomethy Furse made a musically-significant discovery regarding the eaterie.

"Tom recently moved near a Pret A Manger and discovered they throw out all the uneaten sandwiches at the end of the day," Badwan explained.

"Upon making this discovery he decided to give up spending money on food and instead buy synths."

Badwan went on to tell NME.COM why The Horrors' comeback single 'Sea Within A Sea' isn't being released on vinyl.

"It's such a long song that you can't really get it on seven-inch without the sound quality being fucked," he said.

The band have made 'Sea Within A Sea' available to download for free from Thehorrors.com, as well as premiering a video for the track on the site.

The band's Spider Webb (who has swapped instruments with Furse for the new LP) also spoke about the recording sessions for 'Primary Colours', revealing that The Horrors' east London rehearsal room was key to the overall mood of the album.

"The room had no windows; it was complete darkness [when we were writing] so it could have been any hour of the day," he said. "The most we did was a four-day stint."

The Horrors are due to make their live comeback tonight (March 23), when they play a gig at London's Rich Mix Cinema. Check back tomorrow for a full gig report on NME.COM.

Meanwhile, The Horrors' Joshua Third has apparently been sighted on Google Street View.

Allegedly, the guitarist can be seen waiting for a bus on London's Hackney Road.

The Horrors: 'We questioned our own sanity'
The making of 'Primary Colours' was an intense experience

April 9, 2009
http://www.nme.com/news/the-horrors/43975



The Horrors found themselves questioning their own sanity during the intense production of their new album 'Primary Colours'.

Speaking to NME for this week's cover feature - a behind-the-scenes video of which you can watch below - the Southend band revealled how the follow-up to 2007's 'Strange House', out on May 5, was made in isolation in a windowless studio in east London.

According to keyboard/bass player Rhys 'Spider' Webb, the experience sometimes drove them close to the edge.

"We'd begun to question our sanity," he reveals. "We were just lost in this world, in this place for months that didn't have any windows. We didn't have any involvement with (record label) XL – there was no A&R man telling us what to do – and we didn't play the music we were making to anyone, not even to our friends. So it got to the point where we'd start to question what we were doing."

However, Webb insisted the process was worth it.

He said: "We wouldn't want to just be a conventional guitar group. We felt like we could and did try most things on this record. We're all really interested in psychedelic sounds and mindbending sounds and pushing things in a different way."

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Another new band I've mentioned as worthy. They're great and they're bizarre. What more do you need?

The Horrors: 'Making 'Primary Colours' was a mad party'
Band tell NME.COM how the 'Album Of 2009' came to be

January 5, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/the-horrors/49085



The Horrors have spoke about the the making of last album 'Primary Colours', which was recently named NME's Album Of 2009.

In the first part of an exclusive NME.COM documentary about the The Horrors' record which will premiere online this week, the band explain how the album came into existence – from early rehearsals, to the recording studio.

Watch video footage of the band talking about the making of 'Primary Colours' below now.

Describing the atmosphere of 'Primary Colours'' recording sessions, bassist Rhys Webb said: "Ultimately it was just like going into what was really a mad party everyday. We'd be going in there in varied states of mind – sometimes feeling shit, sometimes feeling great, sometimes really off our heads…"

Video: http://www.nme.com/nme-video/video/58740910001