The Horrors Skying

• You Said
• I Can See Through You
• Endless Blue
• Dive In
• Still Life
• Wild Eyed
• Moving Further Away
• Monica Gems
• Oceans Burning

Southend, England's the Horrors dropped the campy overtones of their well-received 2007 debut, Strange House, and instead went into a shoegaze/post-punk direction two years later with Primary Colours. The Geoff Barrow-produced effort was their most acclaimed to date and a strong lead into the band's third album, Skying. The Brits have left some of the fuzzier sounds of their sophomore effort behind and instead moved into what Prefix writer Kiran Aditham described as Disintegration-era Cure with a tinge of Echo and the Bunnymen. In other words, the Horrors definitely studied their post-punk forefathers while recording the 10 tracks of Skying.

Abstract by Andrew Martin