News: Vampire Weekend, The Horrors and more in Vogue

January's issue of U.S Vogue will feature the sartorial stylings of your favourite indie-rock pin ups.
Vampire Weekend, The Horrors, Golden Silvers and Adam Green are amongst the fashionistas strutting their stuff.
Check 'em out

Vampire Weekend

Adam Green

Golden Silvers

The Horrors



Beirut

*images via Stereogum

News: The Horrors and The xx top NME list

NME have published their "Best 50 Albums of 2009" list and taking out the top spots were The Horrors for their second album Primary Colours at #1 and newcomers The xx with their debut xx at #2.

No doubt we'll see these guys keep dominating as the end of year lists roll in.

Joining them on the list are The Big Pink at #7, Future Of The Left at #18 and Cold Cave at #24

Click here to view the full list.

Tour News: The Horrors announce side shows

A mess of sharp elbows, big hair, feedback and monochrome clothes, The Horrors return to Australia in 2010, with a new album ‘Primary Colours’ produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead.

After touring Australia for the first time in 2007 to much love, in 2010 The Horrors will join the Big Day Out tour in New Zealand and Australia and Billions Australia are pleased to announce The Horrors will perform three sideshows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in January!

With their album ‘Primary Colours’ earlier this year, critics have scrambled all over the place, referencing goth, rockabilly, surf, post-punk and every artist from Joe Meek to The Fall to The B52s to describe The Horror’s sound.

Don’t miss The Horrors in Sydney, Melbourne & Perth!

Tickets on sale this Thursday 19 November

THE HORRORS 2010 Australian tour

Wed 20 Jan - Oxford Arts Factory SYDNEY

Tickets available at www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on your mobile www.moshtix.mobi and all moshtix outlets.

Wed 27 Jan - Corner MELBOURNE
Tickets from Corner Box Office (57 Swan St Richmond 12-8 Mon-Sat),
phone bookings on 9427 9198, online bookings www.cornerhotel.com

Sat 30 Jan - Amplifier PERTH
Tickets from www.heatseeker.com.au ,
Mills, Planet, Star Perth & www.moshtix.com.au

Primary Colours is out now through XL/Remote Control.

New MP3: The Horrors - Whole New Way

Brand new track from The Horrors right here.
Whole New Way was originally on the Japanese edition of Primary Colours, but was re-recorded over the English summer in Damon Albarn's studio.
This comes on the back of The Horrors being freshly announced for next year's
selling-out-like-hotcakes Big Day Out.


The Horrors - Whole New Way [digital single]

Peaches, The Horrors and Magic Dirt play Big Day Out 2010

So The Big Day Out's first announcement is up!

Rumours have been swirling around madly on blogs, forums and facebook for months now and today was they day they were either confirmed, or completely dismissed (Bowie anyone?).

Amongst the confirmed line up is:

She may have just left the country, but Big Day Out favourite Peaches returns again in January in all her glory for a string of knock-out live performances.

Big Day Out veterans Magic Dirt return again for what will no doubt be one of the festival's highlights. Recently suffering a tragic loss, Magic Dirt will play in honour of their good friend and bandmate, the late Dean Turner.

Also taking the Big Day Out stage will be brooding British boys, The Horrors. Their second album Primary Colours blew away both fans and critics alike, compltely prooving they are well worth the hype.

Who knows what round two will hold?


FRIDAY JANUARY 15th AUCKLAND MT SMART STADIUM

SUNDAY JANUARY 17th GOLD COAST PARKLANDS

FRIDAY JANUARY 22nd SYDNEY SHOWGROUND

TUESDAY JANUARY 26th MELBOURNE FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE

FRIDAY JANUARY 29th ADELAIDE SHOWGROUND

SUNDAY JANUARY 31st PERTH CLAREMONT SHOWGROUND

The Horrors and Friendly Fires perform at The Mercury Prize 2009

[picture from bbc.co.uk]

Follow the link to check out the performance of Who Can Say by The Horrors at this year's Mercury Prize.
They were shortlisted for the prize on the back of their second album Primary Colours which completely blew away both critics and fans alike.

Here they talk about their nomination and what they wanted to achieve with the second album.

[picture from bbc.co.uk]

On the other end of the spectrum, co-shortlisters and label mates Friendly Fires performed Jump In The Pool from their knockout self titled debut.

Follow the link to see Ed in all his hip shaking glory and click here to hear about their reaction to being nominated (and Lily Allen NOT being nominated - pretty funny stuff)

The Horrors - Mirror's Image

The Horrors have released the video for their third single Mirror's Image.

Confessing himself as a mad fan, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent reznor had premiered the clip on his own site saying:

"We are very pleased and honored to premiere the new video from one of our favorite bands, The Horrors. 'Mirror's Image' is the new single from their excellent record 'Primary Colours'."

Mirror's Image is a swirling and hypnotic track that has now been matched up to visuals that are equally as trippy.

Bold and bright images of kaleidoscopic butterflies and daisies juxtaposed against the harshness of lo-fi visual production.

Perfecto!

The Horrors on Nylon TV

Behind the scenes at The Horrors photoshoot for Nylon Magazine.



Primary Colours is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

The Horrors Glastonbury photo diary

The Guardian asked The Horrors to document their time at this year's Glastonbury in a photo diary. The band provided some beautifully arty shots, but somewhat baffled by them, The Guardian contributed captions of their own.



Click here to see the rest.

Stream The Horrors album Primary Colours here!

The Horrors new album Primary Colours has scored a glowing 9/10 album review in NME:

"Time will tell how Primary Colours stands up to the likes of Loveless or Psychocandy, but right now, this feels like the British art-rock album we've all been waiting for"

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Take a listen and judge for yourself:

Buy the album on iTunes.

Primary Colours is out in Australia on May 2 through XL/ Remote Control.

New The Horrors video Who Can Say

A couple of weeks ago we blogged The Horrors track Who Can Say from their forthcoming album Primary Colours.

Now here is the video.



The Horrors 'Primary Colours' is out May 2 through XL/ Remote Control.

New track from The Horrors - Who Can Say

If you found the epic Sea Within A Sea single we posted up last month a bit too much to swallow, here’s something a little more short n’ sweet.

Who Can Say is the second taste of the oh so very soon to be released Primary Colours.

The lads seem pretty intent on starting a new chapter in their musical path, only subtle hints of their old stuff is evident in the new tracks and news has been circulating in the blogosphere that their onstage attire has seem to be toned down a few notches… hmm interesting.

Bringing to light their inspirations (or obsessions) with such musical staples as My Bloody Valentine and Jesus And Mary Chain Who Can Say matches a swampy, chugging bassline with a steady drumbeat and a middle eight of Shangri La-esque spoken word.

Have a listen to what all the fuss is about.

Who Can Say [mp3]

The Horrors' new album Primary Colours is out May 2.

The Horrors premier new album at London show

NME reports The Horrors premiered their new album at a London show at Bethnal Green's Rich Mix Cinema, earlier this week.

Their album Primary Colours will be released here on May 2 through XL.

We posted the mp3 and video of The Sea Within A Sea last week but if you're hungry for more, check out this track by track review on The Quietus.

The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea mp3

When a mysterious, unnamed counting down clock appeared on the Horrors Website, speculators and fans naturally assumed that this clock counted down to the release of new, never before heard Horrors material. On the 17th of March the band unveiled their first single ‘Sea Within A Sea’ from their upcoming album ‘Primary Colours’.

Drainpipes and amazing hair still intact, the band seem to have matured musically producing this 8 minute epic that swerves towards their influences in Joy Division and Kraftwerk. .In their track-by-track summary of the ‘Primary Colours’ NME described “Sea Within A Sea” as “An eight-minute Spacemen 3-meets-Neu! odyssey of ominous motorik rhythms, Faris’ mournful incantations and an expanding starfield of synths.” Phew! Now, we do realise that the Horrors may be the darlings of NME, but this ain’t no exaggeration! Check it out for yourself…

Sea Within A Sea [mp3]


www.thehorrors.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thehorrors

New video for The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea

The Horrors have signed to XL. Check out the video for The Horrors track 'Sea Within A Sea' from their forthcoming album Primary Colours out May 2.

As the XL blog says "[eight] minutes long and taking in Neu!, gloomy post-punk, C86 indie and acid house ... we never knew the Horrors had it in them."

An "8 minute kraut-goth workout" indeed.



www.thehorrors.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thehorrors