Being single can be a tough combination of porn and not having anyone to split the cooking/washing up duties with. That’s why we’re here, to offer support, friendship and camaraderie where there was none before. Unless your name is Calvin Harris in which case we’re just going to lay into your latest vinyl turd. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘The Horrors’
Drugs, with love from Black Lips
The video for Black Lips‘ new single, “Drugs”, is a warm family film, full of love and laughs. After you’ve watched it, you should really track down the split seven-inch released on Vice Records on August 2. The other side is a cover of the band’s last single, “I’ll Be With You”, by Faris Badwan from the Horrors and Cherish Kaya (ex-Ipso Facto). Collectively they are called Lumina, and this is their first release.
A very sarcastic person reviews this year’s Mercury prize nominees
Alright? A Very Sarcastic Person here. So I suppose you’re expecting me to pour cold water over this year’s Mercury nominees, aren’t you? Because that’s what you’d expect of someone totally sarcastic, wouldn’t you just? In fact, that’s what you’d expect from Vice isn’t it? Something disparaging about how the Mercury prize is as edgy and relevant as a grandmother made of cotton wool. And you’d sit back and feel oh so bloody superior in your shitty office job knowing that someone had conformed entirely to your narrow weave of prejudice. Then you’d lean over to your dumb-as-muck colleague and relate this, and the two of you would chortle heartily about how bloody good you are at reading between media lines, ha ha ha. Then you’d go back to fiddling with Microsoft Excel and wishing you were dead. Well screw you, I’m doing it anyway.
Sincerely,
A Very Sarcastic Person
The Horrors’ American mixtape
Back in March, The Horrors‘ Tom and Rhys, aka Spider and the Flies, made a pair of mixtapes for us called Up and Down. You all loved Up, but I think you were a little darked-out by Down. Since then, The Horrors brought out their amazing second record, and so they’ve been on tour in America, scuttling through record shops, buying out the vinyl history of a nation. To go with the story of the tour, Tom’s made us a mix spanning the divine discoveries from Chicago to Albuquerque. Click through to read and listen to what travelling around America is like. Read more »
Primavera - MBV, The Horrors, broken legs and broken bands
This one goes out to all the British people who pay upwards of £300 to sleep in a muddy concentration camp for three days while millionaire indie rock bands laugh and laugh and laugh at them. Read more »
Listen to the new Horrors album now
Everyone’s been going pretty loopy about the new Horrors album. We gave it 10/10 the other month and now even fat broadsheet journalists are pissing themselves about it. Check out for yourself here before it’s officially released next week.
A Phil Spector playlist by Faris Badwan
Everybody knows that Phil Spector was found guilty for 2nd degree murder the other day for shooting somebody who was in Xena Warrior Princess. But did you know that the prosecution attempted to have him remove his wigs for the trial? Phil refused, telling the judge that the hair was real. For that reason alone I think he should be exonerated. I don’t know anybody who likes Phil Spector more than Faris Badwan from The Horrors so this morning I spoke to him about the case. During the course of that conversation he recommended eleven Phil songs to listen to that aren’t “Be My Baby”. Here they are, with a one-line description from Faris. Read more »
Spider and the Flies mix, pt.1 - ‘Up’
A while back Tom Furse and Rhys Webb spent a six-month sabbatical from The Horrors completing Spider and the Flies’ staggering dreadnought of a debut album. It was a crushing prolapse of influences and innovations and it rocked. As these two are the biggest record freaks we’ve ever met we asked them to record us a couple of mixes for us, being the cool guys they are, they said yes.
Homerton Strangler - Publicist
Hello, Rodaidh here again. Next week I’m in the studio for a couple of days with Publicist. Publicist is the baby of Sebastian Thomson (Trans Am, Dead Kids) and features Ian Svenonius (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses) on vocals. These guys have played together in Weird War for a while but the Publicist sound is something different altogether and, having just received and heard demo versions of the songs we’re going to be working on, I can say that I am seriously excited about these tracks. In fact I was so blown away with the demos themselves that I decided, with their permission of course, to put one of my favourites, “Momma”, up here.
