Strange House [Enhanced]

The Horrors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Stolen Transmission
• ASIN: B000OYC2IK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,450 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #58 in Music > Alternative Rock > Hardcore & Punk > Hardcore
  • #67 in Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro > Garage Bands

Track Listings

1. Jack The Ripper

2. Count In Fives

3. Draw Japan

4. Gloves

5. Horror's Theme

6. Little Victories

7. She Is The New Thing

8. Sheena Is A Parasite

9. Thunderclaps

10. Gil Sleeping

11. A Train Roars

12. Count In Fives - MUSIC VIDEO

13. Gloves - MUSIC VIDEO

Editorial Reviews

Review

Strange House is 12 songs of snarling, violent, anarchic garage pop that makes 90 percent of the new bands in the world suddenly irrelevant. --VICE (10/10)

Heroic in their divisiveness, the Horrors reject the ideology of virtually every British guitar group ... Connoisseurs of punk's darkest corners (Damned, early Misfits) and post-punk's experimental extremes (Pop Group - see instro 'Gil Sleeping') will have their socks knocked off, totally. --MOJO (4 out of 5 stars)

Their debut album proves that they have the substance to back up their Dickinsian undertaker image... Transforms a surf and psych-rock homage into something fresh and virile. --THE OBSERVER (4 out of 5 stars)

Product Description

Ah, those Horrors, perhaps one of the most divisive bands to cross the Atlantic in recent memory. Mindless noise? Fashion victims? Absolutely not. The Horrors are one of the most complete, intellectualized, though-provoking bands out there. This is music for youth. It is unifying in its chaos, startling in its simplicity - all those things that music fans have been bemoaning as dead and gone. And now, its up to you, dear music fans, to allow the Horrors to take you on their journey back in time - to a time when music evoked fury, evoked interest, evoked debate. A time when you spent all your pennies at record fairs trying to find the most twisted explosions of sound ever pressed to vinyl.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My new favorite album, May 18, 2007

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Plooba - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange House (Audio CD)

Best album I've heard in years. Primal, noisy, spooky etc. When you hear terms like horror punk, garage, even goth, one might think "pfft we've certainly heard that before" but these guys do sound unique. They are a breath of fresh air. Loud, noisy, brash, Adams Family organs, early goth and punk, garage twangy reverb guitars, stick figure physiques. What more could one want in a band? The USA is so infantile in it's acts that even decent singers like Gwen Stephani, Nelly Fertado, and Fergie are reduced to child-like nursery rhyme vocals over repetitive beats. Our rock is reduced to whiny, bratty emo kids with the same whine/scream vocals, the same lyrics, the same production, the same haircuts. We are way too steeped in R&B and Hip Hop culture on the main stream front. Oh, and Nickelback (gag reflex kicks in) whom I categorize as "rock for people who don't like rock". Most British acts that the zines herald now are kind of poor Franz Ferdinand type clones or boring balladeers. The Horrors remind me of more pure times in music. Sifting through record shops in the East Village for word of mouth underground bands. They make a joyous noise. Bravo! Anyone else wanna chime in?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Psychotic sounds for freaks and weirdos", May 17, 2007

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J. Wiseman "ode to nothing" (SLC, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange House (Audio CD)

Wow, what an album! This is the kind of music that no matter how loud you turn up your speakers, you still want it louder. If you want a fun, eccentric record, this is it! And the CD pressing is all black (as in BOTH SIDES of the disc) . . . really cool (gives the impression of 45 vinyl). Buy this album. Your ears and head will thank you. Oh, and my favorite track: #7, "She is the New Thing" (awesome, awesome track--the sample here will not do it justice).

P.S.

There is a US band by the same name, so don't confuse these guys with them (although the US band isn't half bad, so you might want to check them out, too). This band is from the UK, and besides an EP, this is their debut album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Influences a go go......, November 8, 2007

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E. Dill (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange House (Audio CD)

It's virtually impossible to listen to the Horrors' "Strange House" without ticking off their seeming influences: The Cramps, The Damned, The Fall, The Sonics, The B-52's, or any 60's garage band that favored a cheesy organ. But The Horrors are not just a pastiche of influences. Somehow, they sound startling fresh. Scary? Not hardly. Campy is more like it. But they make noisy, driving, exciting music, too. Retro goth garage at its finest. Play it loud and play it often.