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Primary Colours

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Few listening to the cartoonish debut album from pantomime psych rockers The Horrors would have guessed they had a record like 2009’s Primary Colours in them. Yet the band’s second album saw them ditching both their Adams Family schtick and Count Five by way of The Cramps racket and embracing an entirely new sonic palette encompassing My Bloody Valentine, The Psychedelic Furs, Spacemen 3, Can, Wire, Siouxsie And the Banshees, Portishead and more. Of course, great record collections don’t always make for great albums, and luckily in songs such as the churning Spector/JAMC update “Who Can Say” and “Sea With A Sea”’s industrial krautrock pulse, The Horrors had the songs to conjure up a spectral vision that was entirely their own.

Chris Catchpole

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