The Horrors: Fantasy Faris and Portishead-related new album info
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▾ 18 comments 21:36 August 20th, 2008
Goth-inspired noize mulchers The Horrors, are not only in the midst of finishing their second album but apparently their frontman also has time to be an elite fantasy footballer.
In news posted over at the Young Turks blog there's evidence that Faris Badwan (aka Rotter), is currently ranked sixth out of 1,274,118 teams! If you spot Sour Face FC in the papers then yes, that's him.
The blog also reveals that The Horrors have nearly finished their new album. They're only guessing this as the band's studio webcam session have now ended. The record has been produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead (and Invada Records, read our label profile) which is fairly exciting news. We'll let you know more as details become available.
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i can't wait for their new album
faris supports blackburn rovers
^ we were talking about this a couple of days ago
I guess he must've had second thoughts about fancying himself as a record producer.
geoff barrow is a pretty amazing choice though
i srsly can't wait
actually i remember them working with nick zinner
and it just amounted to some b-sides
i am 95% positive
that i saw one of the Horrors (the short haired one) in the Mammals room of the Natural History Museum on Monday. He was looking at an Elk.
The Horrors have huge potential.
Their influences are spot on. Spider (do you think he was named after the Corrie hippie?) DJd at a night I went to and he was briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliant.
I think they should lose the pantomime and Faris should improve his singing slightly. They'd be great.
Yeah
I agree with this.
Enjoyed the first album a bit too.
Yeah
their influences are great. Problem is, they're a pretty sub-par garage rock/punk band. I can name quite a few other bands doing exactly the same thing as them at the moment, so I can only put their success down to their clothing style.
Apparently the new album is different though. We'll see.
neils
children?
that's really weird
i musta been kinda drunker than i thunk last night.
^ Spider the Corrie Hippy
Looked like a paler Richard Ashcroft...
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/elystan/297/corospider.jpg
yeh, i can't name
any half successful bands doing the same thing right now, apart from the few who are immersed in the constantly ongoing yet constantly non-mainstream garage rock revival scene.
haha
You're hilarious dude!
A friend has heard some of this record and says it sounds like some sort of C86 band but with the extremely lame vocals still standing strong.
I've never felt more embarrassed for a band than when I saw this lot support The Sonics a few months ago. I was genuinely cringing through most of it.
That said, he shits all over my fantasy football team.
They Hated Models
Neils Children were the proto-Horrors but now they're MOR indie jank. Really disappointing washout of potential, there.
_
You're kidding, right?
For a start The Guillotines shit all over The Horrors.
Second of all there are a gajillion bands doing almost exactly the same thing, but better. If you really don't know and are interested check out Deathrock and Batcave music. There's some great stuff out there!
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