The Horrors - 'Gloves'
You know rave music? You know how it's coming back in a massive way, thanks to a new wave of guitar bands who want to make rave-type tunes with rock-type instruments? Well, this lot take that approach to a massive extreme. Imagine the kind of rave music made by the ghosts of Victorian undertakers, who can only access dusty old '60s instruments and a variety of dead badgers to wear as hair. That's yer Horrors sound, right there...
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Course, being called the Horrors and looking the way that they do, there's not a lot of ecstatic abandon to the band's music. Or at least, it's not the kind that would have you waving a glow-stick around and having very fond feelings towards your fellow man.
No, theirs is the kind of rush of adrenaline that only comes when you're watching a film, it's all gone dark, the dramatic music has been and gone, it's silent...and suddenly a sharp knife bursts out of a dark corner, narrowly misses the lead actor, smashes through the TV screen and embeds itself in your thigh. You feel a bit excited, a bit sick, and you're worried that this situation isn't entirely healthy. It's like a rave from beyond the grave...
Then, rave being a communal sort of music, you put a gothic picture frame around the knife-handle and limp out to show all your friends. Before you know it, the Daily Mail is involved and the Horrors find themselves behind bars...WHERE THEY BELONG...
Enjoy it while you can...muah HA HA HA HA!
Released: February 26th
(Fraser McAlpine)
PS: If you're reading this on Monday 26th of Feb and would like to meet the band, get down to Fives Records in Leigh On Sea for 12:30pm, or Rough Trade Records in London's trendy Covent Garden for 5:30. Dead badger optional.
PPS: If you're reading this later than these events...well...you'll have to do the whole thing in your head.
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