Strik3r

I didn't even say that.

Finally someone on here who doesn't hate them!

Seems quite cynical.
The Horrors are brilliant. They're doing something COMPLETELY different to their contemporaries (at least the reviewer got one thing right), and are making people happy in doing so.

Their music is really quite creative, you can't deny that when you see people like Spider Webb and Joshua Third on stage. The energy is undeniably electric and the lyrics of Faris Badwan, mesmerisingly poetic.

And who says a lead singer has to have a technically good voice? Faris' voice fits perfectly with the style of music The Horrors are making, and the vibe it creates.
Did Johnny Rotten have a good voice?
Does Mark Smith have a good voice?
What about Kurt Cobain, he couldn't sing!
Now see how famous they became, how respected and influential their music has been. Funnily enough all of those bands have achieved enormous success, irrespective of how well their frontman would go in the next series of Idol. If you're going to write off a band because the singer "can't sing", then you're missing out on a hell of a lot of good music, my friend.

The Horrors have countless influences, and it is great that people, including myself, being 15 years old, are listening to the music which fuelled their fire, yes - as a result of their existence. Yet the influences are so mashed up to a point which renders it impossible to say "oh, they sound exactly like this band," or "they sound like the love child of such and such".

It all bubbles down to personal opinion, and I think the band are quite happy that they've created such a polarisation of opinion. No matter what anyone else says, The Horrors will always have a cult of followers, the more loyal of whom will stick by them for their music and the sheer emotion and feeling which fills the listener upon the playing. They are what they are, take it or leave it, there is no right or wrong.

But please, if you're going to have an opinion on a band, listen to them first!