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10.0
3457
10.0 |
The Quietus
Everyone had them pegged as a joke. Well, no-one's laughing anymore. Non-believers, cast your doubts aside: it really is The Horrors, and it really is that good.
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10.0
3463
10.0 |
No Ripcord
While Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear duke it out for the best of ’09, I’m rooting for The Horrors, my expectations largely optimistic that outside ears will glady receive what this band has created
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9.0
3443
9.0 |
Clash
It’s a considered, masterfully segued collection that rewards entire-length plays with an immediate urge to do it all over again.
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9.0
3445
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A reminder that young British bands can actually progress to brilliant new heights.
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9.0
3446
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A reminder that young British bands can actually progress to brilliant new heights, and perhaps, just perhaps, the occasional surprise in these media saturated times isn’t as endangered a beast as previously thought.
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9.0
3448
9.0 |
musicOMH
There was nothing to suggest that The Horrors had this in them, but the manner and the fashion in which it exceeds expectations serve to amplify just how good it is. If there's a more surprising album this year, we'll be, er, um, surprised.
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9.0
3449
9.0 |
NME
Time will tell how ‘Primary Colours’ stands up to the likes of ‘Loveless’ or ‘Psychocandy’, but right now, this feels like the British art-rock album we’ve all been waiting for.
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8.0
3451
8.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
An unexpected and welcome delight.
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8.0
3444
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Attractively moody and ambitious.
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8.0
3460
8.0 |
The Times
Having talked a great record from day one it was perhaps just a matter of time before the Horrors made one.
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8.0
3461
8.0 |
The Times
Your first inclination is to play it all over again. Now, there’s a happy ending you won’t find on any Horrors song.
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8.0
3453
8.0 |
The Guardian
The Horrors' excellent taste, from Spacemen 3 to the Shangri-Las, was never in doubt, but who could have guessed they would metabolise their influences with such bold panache?
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8.0
3454
8.0 |
The Irish Times
A dazzling, swaggering piece of work.
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8.0
3456
8.0 |
The Observer
The sparse, trashy garage rock of their debut has opened into a lighter, brighter experiment in new wave and distorted electronica.
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7.6
3462
7.6 |
Pitchfork
For a band that's endured no lack of skepticism for their pre-fab packaging, it turns out the freakiest thing about the Horrors is that they're for real.
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7.0
3442
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Against all odds, and for no earthly reason at all, these London goth-punk fashion plates suddenly sound as demented and hungry as they look.
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6.0
3455
6.0 |
The List
The whole thing is rather monotonous in its misery, and they do wear their new influences on their sleeves.
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6.0
3458
6.0 |
The Scotsman
At least they deliver it with a bit more spice than the uninspired likes of Editors and White Lies.
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6.0
3447
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Though the gloom rarely lifts on their latest collection, it's far more varied in tone and style.
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6.0
3452
6.0 |
Spin
Boasts an admirably moody menace, but lacks the debut's darkly comic drive.
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5.0
3450
5.0 |
PopMatters
Aren’t going to win over any new fans with this change in direction. If anything, they might lose a few... At times exhausting, at other times exhilarating, Primary Colours is more an experience than an album and, despite its flaws, one that deserves to be heard.
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4.0
3459
4.0 |
The Sunday Times
No amount of sonic strangeness chucked at the songs by the producer, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow (wonderful though much of his work here is), can lift the album above pale-imitation mediocrity.
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