Sunday 18 October 2009

A Design For Life

The Horrors' new video, for the b-side Whole New Way, just came out (a day or two ago, and I honestly have no idea how we’ve missed this). It’s simple but not in the Cornerstone-kind of simple. It shows the five boys walking in a field with medical spectacles (a kind that protect you against the light) as the sun goes up. It also fits into the whole make-over of the five Southenders. It follows the idea of maturity and growth they have been talking about ever since their sophomore album came out. But it drops the psychedelic/chaotic approach they had for Mirror’s Image and takes on the elegance of Who Can Say and Sea With A Sea.

And as the colours get warmer, as the sun turns every shadow into a clear silhouette, the synths burst cheerfully and invade your ears like any Our Love To Admire-era Interpol song would.

3 comments:

  1. Whaaat? Can't believe i've missed this one.

    Lovely.

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  2. i know, maybe it's a sign our lifes aren't equal to zero any longer or that we just don't use our internet connexion properly anymore. maybe the second one

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  3. OH, what a cheap imitation of Joy Division meets Echo & The Bunnymen with The Cramps attitude... They're so fake. They bore me to death.

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