The Horrors
by Grant Moser
December 2006
The Horrors are described as indie rock and death rock. I don’t really see much of either. To me, they sound a whole lot like the garage surf-rock that was coming out of California in the early ’60s, with a bit more bravado, of course, for our modern times. I can picture them being the house band for the bar in Dusk to Dawn. They’re loud and they have a lot of energy and they scream a lot on their songs, but for people to have gone gaga over an EP like this? Maybe it’s because they’re yet another stylish young band out of England. But there’s plenty of those. Maybe it’s their gothed-out faces and hair that have already been featured on the cover of NME—it’s worked for bands before. Maybe it’s their live shows. But with the five songs on the EP averaging two minutes each, that’s not much of a show. I just don’t get the hype for a band that only has an EP out. I mean, they’re fun to listen to, but people are acting like they’re the second coming. Let’s see how they do on a full-length before we brand them saviors.