The Horrors announce new album

The band The Horrors is about to release Skying, which is a new album. This will be done by XL Recordings on the 11^th of July. One could’ve spotted the frontman of The Horrors in Paradiso last week Friday, when he and his project Cat’s Eyes played Paradiso. A report of that (and the other gigs played that day) will follow as soon as I have time to get that bloody edit done. The album (to get back to that) will count ten tracks.

One of these tracks is entitled Still Life. It is based on Ernie Bristonowitz, who ever since his fiftieth birthday woke up, and the first thing he said was, Bah, is this still life? Not that he was anticipating an apocalypse (although he had often wished for one), after fifty years he just thought, surely, I have to wake up some day and I will be somewhere else? Where he would be he wasn’t sure of, just anything to get out of this rut, though he had his preferences. He often dreamed he would wake up in a sort of cartoony land with penguins as waiters, carrousels whose horses suddenly start running free -- and they race! -- and sometimes there is a bit of a song. And a tap dancing chimney sweeper. Yeah, he thought, you’d never see such a thing in what we call life.