An interesting twist. The Horrors have recruited video director Chris Cunningham to produce their second album.
Cunningham’s notoriety stems from unsettling promos shot for Aphex Twin and Bjork, amongst others. He’s also worked with The Horrors previously and now the band have shown their art-school roots by roping in the ‘Sheena is a Parasite’ director on production duties – his debut at the desk.
Concept is the key, it seems, and a shared loved of bruised, fucked-up music is so far reaping rewards.
"He hasn’t done music production before but I think it'll be really special. The results so far are really encouraging,” frontman Faris Rotter said of Cunningham.
"The ideas that he has are really cinematic and there aren't really that many contemporary producers who have that kind of vision of their own and put that kind of stamp on something and I think he could be one of those."
Rotter is excited by the blank slate Cunningham brings – rejecting Xfm’s suggestion that this may be a disadvantage to the band who’ve recently been dropped by Loog.
"But 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."
Whatever your opinion on The Horrors, the results of the collaboration should at the least be interesting.
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when it comes down to it, even the worlds most interesting pile of dog shit
is still a pile of dog shit
That is the best response I have ever seen on this website.
And so true. I fucking hate the horrors and they are as manafactured as leona lewis.
yeah but that's quite true is it
Hold up
"the band who’ve recently been dropped by Loog"
Eh? Regardless of perceived quality, Loog can afford to drop top 40 chart artists covered in McNicholas' man juice, can it?
this is the first i've heard of it too
i know their US label has gone under but not heard owt about them being dropped by loog.
...
i heard faris rotter say this new album reminds him of the cure's disintegration. deluded much?
yeah, because you've heard it to make that judgement, haven't you?
I hope it's actually good. They showed some promise with 'Sheena is a Parasite' but had little to stand up to it with the rest of their stuff. Cunningham's a genius, albeit of the visual variety, but perhaps since music production will be a new process to him, his working with them will bring out whatever potential they have at the same time. I can't say I'm into their 'scene', but they've got a uniqueness about them.
Whether the new album could live up to Disintegration comparisons is neither here nor there - because frankly, The Cure were pretty damn patchy up till then themselves.
where's...
...the uniqueness?!? they're a poor, cheap and rubbish rip off of the cramps and the whole psychobilly scene from...whenever really.
that pile of dog shit comment is so true.
Considering how many bands currently big on DiS are
cheap, rubbish rip-offs of any number of old bands, this comment is utterly redundant. Who else out there at this current moment makes music like The Horrors do? Exactly. But hey, way to make judgements on stuff you haven't heard, too!
Soon DiS will no longer need a reviews section, we'll know all about every future unreleased album thanks to the prophetic outbursts of the DiScommunity, who could never possibly be wrong.
Nice response
the horrors also dont sound that much like the cramps really... more eighties matchbox/ the birthday party if you are gonna be pedantic about it :)
the horrors are quite good.
hey,
it's all right if you like them. I don't. I just think that there ARE in fact bands out there that are original, but don't get any recognition at all. well, I simply don't think that the horrors are original. they are not - fact.
I think they have potential.
Potential like The Birthday Party were once the Boys Next Door. And whatever happened to The Birthday Party...? *winks*
by the way
i was only saying he was deluded to compare their second album to disintegration because disintegration is one of the greatest albums of all time. i think the horrors do have some potential - songs like 'sheena is a parasite', 'death at the chapel' and 'draw japan' are good, i think.
i was trying to convey my surprise that faris would make such a comment about an album they haven't recorded yet. especially one he considers his favourite too. it's almost like something the enemy would say - y'know "this album is like definitely maybe" or something. and the horrors >>>>>> the enemy.
anyway, the horrors are far from the worst band in the world. and i'm hoping their second album is good. i just don't want them to make comments that will make me like them less.
should have said that beforehand :P
i know, shot myself in the foot
still, good to spark a bit of 'debate'
Haha.
'because frankly, The Cure were pretty damn patchy up till then themselves.'
Yeah, whatever.
Whatever, I like them.
What is it with Chris Cunningham
Such a great talent, great promise but he seems to just be pissing it all away. I heard at one point he was due to make a Neuromancer film, which could have been great. Now he hardly ever even does music vids. Such a shame. I can't help but see him producing as being another step in the wrong direction. Who knows, maybe he'll be the next Martin Hannett. But this guy should have made several amazing feature films by now. Tis a shame.
i don't get it
i thought they were doing sessions with that klaxons/SMD producer guy originally?
I don't mind them as band, but Faris just annoys me, trying to come across as this social outcast and weirdo yet he's out practically all the time trying to get recognized. Now he's going out with Peaches Geldof. Does this make him the indie Peter Andre? Haha.
I'll be interested to hear the results of this anyway.
Wow...
... I forgot this band ever existed. Says it all, really.
they
are contrived nonsense. fair play for them shedding light on different influences besides oasis, the libertines or whatever, but come off it they aren't a great band.
i'm not remotely surprised they got dropped from loog to be honest, but the army of deluded 15 year old girls and the fact that faris seems to get spotted with the right people at the right time means they'll probably be around for some time in one way or another.
plus, eighties matchbox did it so much better its actually untrue.
i liked them, i thought they were fun
... but I don't think they percieve that as being one of their strengths. They seem to be a lot more interested in getting a really avante garde production. I hope they remember to write songs as good as Draw Japan too.
I LIKE THE HORRORS
i thought they were awful and essentially a novelty band until i started looking into them further and got hold of their album. years from now i reckon they'll be looked back on as a classic band. i'm 22 i'm not a black clad teenager thats part of that crowd but i honestly think that faris is one of the great frontmen, that the band is talented and that theres art in what theyre doing. public attention might be turning away from them but i don't see them as a novelty band you just sweep under the carpet. you people should seriously give them a chance. end.
//
i challenge anyone who's seen them live to call them shit...
I've seen them live.
They were at quite a strange line-up; I think it might have been an NME thing. The Horrors opened, then Squarepusher, then Jack's White's Stupid Idea (or whatever they were called).
The Horrors were shit. The room was crammed full of people, and after every song there was the ringing sound of total indifference. No-one one clapped, no-one even cared. They just carried on their conversations, but without having to compete for volume with The Horrors. Because they were shit.
They really, really were.
very much this ^^
the horrors have a kind of catchy pop rhythm going on underneath it all, which makes them popular for some nme twats.
This is not the fault of the horrors tho. And yes in context they are a pretty original band, or at least the breakthrough act of a genre of music tht will have no more mainstream attention colpared to horros and comtepories.
Yh sorry ivbe bee driking if makes nooo sesne x
a friend of mine
works in the business and knows Chris Cunningham. Apparently, his flat is like something a demented teenage with less discipline than a pot noddle eating student would live in. There were piles of books, magazines and newspapers everywhere. He hadn't ever thrown anything out since moving in. pornography scattered everywhere, strategically left open with girls doing unspeakable things to themselves and bits of pizza slices still in boxes from weeks before where he got bored eating them.
for the record
i think Count in fives is a good song. other than that jury's out for me.
yadda yadda yadda
The Horrors are great, Cunningham is great and you're all just jealous.