The Horrors – review

Academy 3, ManchesterThe Horrors are true pop chameleons. When they first emerged in 2006 in a blaze of backcombed hair and eyeliner, they sounded like a mess of early Birthday Party and 80s psychobilly. All bar a devoted following of teeny gothy girls in Victorian lace dresses dismissed them as a joke band. However, just two years later, Primary Colours – a Mercury-nominated album of psychedelic krautrock – invited critics to feast upon their words.Now they've shifted the goalposts again. ...

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