limited indies only clear lp ixth album, ‘night life’, sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and - this time - a new line up, in some ways, the horrors are still as they ever were. nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as the horrors. emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘strange house’, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their mercury-nominated follow up ‘primary colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. 2011’s ‘skying’ won the nme award for best album; ‘v’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star guardian review, while 2021’s pair of eps - ‘lout’ and ‘against the blade’ - marked a visceral new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.
limited indies only clear lp ixth album, ‘night life’, sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and - this time - a new line up, in some ways, the horrors are still as they ever were. nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as the horrors. emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘strange house’, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their mercury-nominated follow up ‘primary colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. 2011’s ‘skying’ won the nme award for best album; ‘v’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star guardian review, while 2021’s pair of eps - ‘lout’ and ‘against the blade’ - marked a visceral new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.
limited indies only clear lp ixth album, ‘night life’, sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and - this time - a new line up, in some ways, the horrors are still as they ever were. nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as the horrors. emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘strange house’, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their mercury-nominated follow up ‘primary colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. 2011’s ‘skying’ won the nme award for best album; ‘v’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star guardian review, while 2021’s pair of eps - ‘lout’ and ‘against the blade’ - marked a visceral new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.
