The Horrors – Night Life – Released 21/03/25

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Nearly 20 years since they first began, there are few bands whove created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut Strange House, before taking a shoegaze-nodding sharp left on their Mercury-nominated follow up Primary Colours, since the beginning theyve roamed between genres and atmospheres freely. 2011s Skying won the NME Award for Best Album; V was heralded as a triumph in a five-star Guardian review, while 2021s pair of EPs – Lout and Against The Blade – marked a visceral new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet. Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause. The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. Theyre musicians wholl funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album Night Life sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.