The Horrors - Skying

They're like the 2010's Primal Scream.

Without the funny stuff, or the good stuff. Or the amusing batshit insanity.

Sort of feel that Faris should just give up on making his own music and move into some kind of svengali role for more talented bands. He's obviously got decent taste in music and knows how to nick his ideas and put them together in a vaguely interesting way (was surprised to hear a bit of Autobahn in the opening track) but he's just a bit rubbish at it himself.

Downside to the svengali idea = making a girl group-influenced album with a classically-trained soprano and making her sound like some diffident third rate Sarah Cracknell copyist from 1998. He seems to have a blind spot regarding vocals, and his grey smudge of a voice ruins this one.

Eh? Looking at the track list of the fact mix, it just seems so utterly predictable for someone with "Good Taste In Music (tm)." Kind of like all the stuff that they namecheck on the album. It's all good taste, and pre-approved and utterly nothing unexpected, or even slightly naff or embarrassing or out of nowhere in any way shape or form.

I guess to be more like Prml Scrm they'd need Andrew Weatherall and better (worse?) drugs.

I think he'd actually be worse as a svengali than fronting his band because, man, that girl group thing, I had to turn it off after about 3 songs. I think it's actually his band that are impeccable at putting together musical ideas. But part of the secret of that really genius-bonkers-batshit appeal is *not* being impeccable and sometimes getting it so wrong that it becomes right. I don't even see them doing that.

they are more than 2011's ride than 2011's primal scream. without the hooks. very boring, very repetitive, very unoriginal. the sound seems messy, blurry but not in a loveless kind of way. it's weird though they seem to be musical chamaelons copying from many totally different bands, but the end results sound very samey. there is no imagination in this music. it's lifeless and hollow.

Yeah, I'm finding the new album pretty draggy, aside from maybe the final two or three tracks. Odd thing is I bought tickets to see them next month - this was before I heard the album, and it was picking up good word of mouth. I'll still go, I think.

so i finally got around to hearing this tonight. it sounds pretty damn good to me, much better than i was expecting. don't think it's as good as the last album but i bought that one on CD and have spent some more time with it.

lol at "Monica Gems" as some lost B-side by Suede.

Why would anyone tell that goldfish story

wrt that goldfish thing I have a feeling that Adam might be talking about the American garage band The Horrors here?

if so does that mean he was in the pee pees?

http://www.discogs.com/Horrors2-Pee-Pees-The-Horrors-Pee-Pees/release/2893090

That Goldfish story is really horrible. Why in the world would anyone think that there was anything cool about needlessly killing animals for a show?

what, you never saw anyone do the old putting goldfish in champagne glasses and knocking them over on the crowd schtick?

I played a show opening for the Horrors and we had bought a dozen or so goldfish. The plan was that the live goldfish would be in champagne glasses at the front of the stage, and that during the show we would knock them into the audience. Lead singer of the Horrors heard about this and pitched a fit and the club owner wouldn't let us do it. Several members of our band were even appearing on a split 7" with him, and he still wouldn't let us go through with that plan.

Of course, the goldfish all ended up in the toilet. A more dignified way to go?

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:05 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why am I not surprised?

Enjoying their new one, fwiw.

that's a cracking old incriminating post, i say as someone with a completely spotless record mind haha

didn't like that big closing track of the new horrors album which everyone was crazy about. they'll never top 'sea within a sea' i think

Skying was the last album of theirs I really bonded with. The last two (including the latest one) are just so meh to me.

cat's eyes are better than horrors, but ignored it seems

You Said came on at the bar the other day and sounded great

Yeah, still my absolute fave by them.

still love this

Thank you for this revive!1am listening to skying at the bar and it sounds great

Still love this. Lost my way with them after the last album. They’ve been gone a while it seems now..

there were songs over the past few that i liked, but skying remains easily my favorite.

(skimming their most recent release, 2 eps from 2021, isn't a very charming experience btw)

(i mean, i guess it sounds like the first album so if you felt like primary colours and skying were downgrades, hey this more recent stuff might be your thing. not mine tho!)

There were those two EPs in 2021 that were so off I thought it was a Soulseek fake leak

(skimming their most recent release, 2 eps from 2021, isn't a very charming experience btw)