Album review: The Horrors: Primary Colours
THE HORRORS: PRIMARY COLOURS XL, £11.74 * * *
SO FAR in their short but eventful career, London-based stick insects The Horrors have guest-starred in an episode of The Mighty Boosh and persuaded Samantha Morton to star in a body horror video, but they have chiefly been concerned with aping alternative rock of yore.
On their debut album, the model was swamp rockers The Cramps. For the follow-up, they have merely substituted one slavish imitation for another, more commercially viable, one – this year, they will be mostly copying doomy 1980s rock in the Joy Division/Echo & The Bunnymen mould, with a soupon of early 1990s shoegazing-style distortion. At least they deliver it with a bit more spice than the uninspired likes of Editors and White Lies.
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