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I'm not down with them enough to refer as 'the guys' hey.

Last time I saw them touring they were playing at the bloody Carling Academy and that.

(can't remember the name, but i do remember they opened for...Black Wire?) and i thought they were really really good, so if i were you and get on this one!
Plus, i hope im not the only one who thinks that more venues/bars should be called something Lounge?

I think he looks cool - it's quite tongue in cheek, I think, instead of try-hard.

is actually lifted from a Jay & The Americans song called 'She Cried'. The Shangri-Las covered it too under the title 'He Cried'.
I agree with DiSassociated that there are definitely similarities with early Psychedelic Furs, before Richard Butler started wearing bacofoil jackets

but that's near perfection, whereas this is just fucking good

is that its so good its almost certain to bring a shoegaze revivial, which is just going to bring hundreds of watered down copyists.

im a massive fan of that sorta music, but whenever it becomes a scene theres just too much shit to sift through.

this is too longwinded for me.

not as good as Sea Within A Sea.

Far too eighties. Hideous synth sound and terrible nu romantic vocals.

The song and the band are great...His moves strangely remind me of this gem-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00

Haha!

really quite excruicitating...'she cried'...who, peaches?

bit of a shame really, because the rest of it is fantastic.

and it seems to have got amazng reviews all round. i cant think of many bands that have changed public opinion (partcularly muso opinion) so much. I think we are going to have to put them on the main stage this year to be honest, by the summer they might be pretty huge.

lovely organ > nasty synth
60s > 80s
garage rock > krauty shogaze
Mark E impression > Robert impression

bordering on gash during the spoken word part. The video is poor as well.

In conclusion: Average/poor.

on the first track, this my bloody valentine guitar rip off is pretty unbearable. i've got a feeling a pattern is forming

Quite frankly. And I don't get why everyone is just sooooo amazed by this completely uninspired album. They don't have any ideas of their own, nicking bits here and there. Last time they tried hard to be the new Cramps, this time MBV, next time probably... Milli Vanilli or whatever. They don't have any identity. Full stop.
The spoken word bit is quite... embarrasing.

You can't hate it and it doesn't really warrant total adoration. It's decent and it's interesting but it's no masterpiece. Move on.

Anyone who thinks this album is rubbish has probably vanished up their own backsides (and no it does not sound like JD, or at least it does in so far as almost anything most bands were playing in the eighties sounded a bit like JD, which is not saying much), and anyone who hails it as the album of the year needs to take a deep breath and wash the sticky stuff out of their pants.

There is a correct and fair reaction to this album (as usual) and it's reserved appreciation, nothing more, nothing less.

like there haven't been enough of these wall-of-sound musicians with dourly-delivered lyrics.
much much preferred 'sheena is a parasite'.

it sounds a bit like subtle chemical brothers remix of my bloody valentine and gary numan all at once. I can't stand his voice but the rest of the track is alright I guess, not doing to much for me.

Sure it's nice that lots of people took the time to deride this and stuff, but I was really posting this to hear what you had to say, and for 2black and other clever people like michael_w and that. I knew you'd be in agreement anyway.

I actually think their songwriting is still in the same vein as it was on the strongest parts of the first album; its got what was an organ riff thats now a keyboard riff that's still kind of hypnotic and circular and drives the whole thing forward to a point at which it burns out. And they always had the noise guitar, except it was a garage noise guitar, and now its a shoegaze noise guitar. Its not a huge transformation, they've just toned down certain stylings that people found a bit abrasive. Basically they've just taken away the silliness.

I've got to say the vocals are ruining it for me. It's a shame, I like everything else about it, (although I wouldn't go as OTT as some people here are).

I've heard so much about the Horrors 'becoming a good band', and... this is it? Horrific synths, the world's dullest bassline and the singer pretending to be Ian Curtis? (Why does everyone try to sing like Ian Curtis anyway? His singing voice was hardly his strength.)