The Horrors’ new album Skying is getting terrific reviews from the British press and based on this lysergic video for the first single off the album, “Still Life,” I’m compelled to give a band I once shrugged off as a bunch of marginally talented pretty boy fashion victims a fresh look. Yes, they wear their influences as brashly as a brocade vest designed by Vivienne Westwood, but what fine influences they are and the band does them justice. So, if you’re a fan of eighties British new wave and synth-pop ala Echo and The Bunnymen, OMD, Teardrop Explodes, Psychedelic Furs and The Cure, you could do a lot worse than The Horrors (Interpol and The Bravery, for instance).

These slender young lads with their lovely long hair may be growing into a formidable group worthy of more than a few kind words from a cynical asshole like myself.

Skying will be released Stateside on August 9th.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds: Hear The Horrors new album ‘Skying’ In Full.