Night Life The Horrors

• 1 Ariel 05:22
• 2 Silent Sister 04:37
• 3 The Silence That Remains 05:42
• 4 Trial By Fire 04:00
• 5 The Feeling Is Gone 04:05
• 6 Lotus Eater 07:13
• 7 More Than Life 05:33
• 8 When The Rhythm Breaks 03:20
• 9 LA Runaway 05:06
• Total Runtime 44:58

Info for Night Life

After nearly 20 years making music, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically-acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘Strange House’, before taking a sharp left turn for their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed freely between genres. 2011’s ‘Skying’ won the NME Award for Best Album; ‘V’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star Guardian review, while 2021’s pair of EPs - ‘Lout’ and ‘Against The Blade’ - marked a new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.

Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause. The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album ‘Night Life’ sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and - this time - a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.

‘Night Life’ is a monumental masterpiece in every respect: the band now contrasts early goth punk with elegant industrial sounds – in the opener ‘Ariel’, accompanied by ethereal choirs and the harmonious voices of frontman Faris Badwan and new recruit Amelia Kidd. The raw intensity typical of horror music culminates in “Trial By Fire”, where the screamed lyrics strike the ear like fists – except that it doesn’t hurt. On the contrary: the thought of the collective ecstasy at the next live gig has something healing about it. There are moments of respite thanks to warm, shimmering synths and the shimmering interlude aptly titled “When The Rhythm Breaks”. It is precisely this interruption of the frenzy, this atmospheric stillness, in which thoughts sometimes race – but rather than suppressing them, the album invites you to surrender to this nocturnal melancholy without a guilty conscience.

Brendan Lynch, guitar, synthesizer
Yves Rothman, synthesizer, bass, guitar
Rhys Webb, bass, synthesizer, vocals
Jordan Cook, drums
Victor Indrizzo, drums
Joshua Third, guitar, organ
Jessica Winter, vocals
Amelia Kidd, synthesizer, programming, vocals
Faris Badwan, synthesizer, programming ,vocals

The Horrors
There are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically-acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘Strange House’, before taking a sharp left turn for their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed freely between genres. 2011’s ‘Skying’ won the NME Award for Best Album; ‘V’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star Guardian review, while 2021’s pair of EPs - ‘Lout’ and ‘Against The Blade’ - marked a new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet. As The Horrors approach their 20th anniversary as a band, their upcoming sixth studio album ‘Night Life’ sees them shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and a new line up centred around the core duo of vocalist Faris Badwan and bassist Rhys Webb, now joined by Amelia Kidd on keys and Telegram’s Jordan Cook on drums, making the new album the band’s first to not feature all 5 original members.

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