(Morning Star, Friday 16 March 2007)
ALBUM: The Horrors - Strange House
(Polydor)
IF you believe nothing else about The Horrors, you must believe that they do have a bloody strange house.
In this album, they sing about spectres of serial killers past drifting by in Jack the Ripper, violent femmes in Sheena is a Parasite and the terminally troubled Morgan in Excellent Choice, who wishes his family dead.
Like Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster before them, The Horrors are not all about making crazy eyes and butchering kittens. Rather, they take the best parts of goth and marry them with a punk rock sensibility, giving birth to a most uneasy alliance. It's a bit like pantomime, but with an underlying stench of dread and, well, horror.
The cacophonous result which springs forth from these art school boys makes their debut one of the records of the year.
All the same, Strange House is a cool place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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