Track Listing

1. Mirror's Image
2. Three Decades
3. Who Can Say
4. Do You Remember
5. New Ice Age
6. Scarlet Fields
7. I Only Think of You
8. I Can't Control Myself
9. Primary Colours
10. Sea Within a Sea

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #702 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
British indie group The Horrors follow-up 2007's criticallyacclaimed debut 'Strange House' with 'Primary Colours', a record that represents a band striving for musical progression and, in doing so, finding an interesting new direction. While the gothic punk influence of such bands as The Cramps remains, there is now a strong Krautrock flavour to The Horrors' sound, resulting in a well-rounded and engaging listen. Includes the single 'Sea Within A Sea'.

Customer Reviews

A change of direction
I must admit, I only liked about four songs on the Horrors debut. This, a very different beast is great from start to finish. It almost feels like the missing link between My bloody valentine and Jesus and the Marychain.

Vocally and musically hardly anything like their noisy debut. Although still not exactly accessible to the masses, it should gain them new fans. A massive change in sound and direction and frankly all the better for it. A brilliant second album.

Best album of 2009...easily
Comparing primary colours to the current same old old, music scene this is af very different contrast and just shows its quality after one listen. You can definitely hear the Cure/Joy Division influences but this shows great maturity from the first album to make the best album of the year. It is very dark majestic sound with ian curtisish vocals over. It is extremely captivating as a album. Not very often can i put an album on from first track to last and enjoy every track as equally as each other. I don't understand the other 3 star 2 star reviewers this is definitely worthy of 5 star. I have had this for around 4 days and already have easily listened over 10 times. This is a must for any music lover. It is one of those few albums which are completely different to the current daytime radio 1 music scene. Please, Buy, Listen and Enjoy this album.

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A strong album - but haven't we been here before?
Let's all accept that the influences are worn openly on this album whether it be My Bloody Valentine, Can, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division. But this is not a bad thing indeed this is a very good album (in places) although by no means the groundbreaking stunner claimed by music papers like the NME. Indeed we must all hope that this band has time to develop further and is not subject to a Strokes style "raise them up and knock them down" approach. Whatever the case "Primary Colours" is by no means as derivative as the recent White Lies album (which I must admit I mistook for the Editors when I heard some of it on the radio) and contains some really excellent songs

Indie rock of this nature is a well worn path and it is hard to bring originality to the party. To be fair to the Horrors they do at least try. The flaunting of German influences on the last four of minutes of the long single "Sea within a Sea" is an interesting new angle which takes them in directions that go well beyond the average indie guitar riff band. Absolutely stunning stuff and please more of this.

But my nagging doubt remains. When the Horrors try to break out of the usual riffery and experiment on tracks such as "Scarlet Fields" and "Mirrors Image" they howl real potential. Alternatively with other tracks like "I cant control myself" and "Who can say" they could easily pay royalties to Howard Devoto of Magazine or even Robert Smith of the Cure. We have heard this a million times before and in some cases done a lot better. The question must be posed in addition if this is the best that British bands can currently muster then the lack of ambition and any startling new departures sees rock music in the UK (with the wonderful exception of Radiohead) stuck in an indie rut from which it can't seem to escape. John Peel once complained about to many "white boys with guitars" in his Festive 50 and more than ever this has salience today. Still rather than end glass half empty let us hope that the Horrors develop further and perhaps leave the six strings even further back in the mix on the next album.