"this song shows the band has evolved way way further than the expected."
Let me shed some light on this, The Horrors appeared on the scene with 'strange house'in 2004 which was trashed by critics, and rightly so, it was an album of cramps pastiche tracks at best. Their lead singer bothered the tabloid gossip pages while dating one of the Geldofs, in esscence I prayed for them to fuck off and be dropped...
Then something happened. They recruited Geoff Barrows of Portishead to produce their second album Peaches Geldof married someone else whilst still dating Faris. Faris dropped the surname 'Rotter' and went with his real surname. They started to be more than a joke band for NME to poke fun at.
Some critics who perhaps felt bad about the thrashing they gave 'Strange House' gave this 'album of the year status' and it was cracking, well produced, well written yet quite inpenetrable in places- Perhaps they had something after all.
This is the highlight of their latest album Skying. It harks back to My Bloody valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain, Early Primal Scream and Death in Vegas, but it is a sound that is totally theirs. The song itself is good but it is not until 3min50 that the song stops being good and becomes great. As if its not good enough being a great song it goes on for the next 2 minutes being great, melting into a gorgeous synthline before that guitar part starts to sneak back in. at 6mins30 the song stops being great and the realization dawns that the Horrors might be the best band since the Beatles.
We are almost certainly dealing with Genius here. I dont remember feeling this way about a track since My Iron Lung by Radiohead.
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