Raw energy, chaos and shadows in Night Life.
The years pass and we are never the same. Our skin wrinkles and thousands of trends appear in networks. But how would it rediscover all those things that make us who we are, to see them in amazement as the first time? With his latest album, Night Life, The Horrs He dares to return to the past to remember why his name has always led a halo of danger and to know more about him, we could talk to the bassist of the band, Rhys Webb.
“I mean, they call us'The Horrs'For a reason. And I love all the music we have made. But I felt that, without a doubt, it was a point where the band was going to continue, for me, I had to return to the danger of our first albums, our initial spirit. ”
The British group is nothing new in the scene. Since its debut, almost 20 years ago, it has changed skin with each of its five previous productions, through Garage Rock, post punk to EDM and Synth Pop, which has given them multiple awards as a Mercury Prize 2009 nomination and the opportunity to accompany artists as New Order and Florence + The Machine in their Tours.
There has been a quite different method in writing this album, because we have had some changes within the formation of the band. So, I mean, that challenged the situation, because, as is the first album that we have written, really, where we have only been Faris and I in the composition. ”
After your last album, V (2017), the set was taken a pause and multiple members (the keyboardist Tom Fuse and the drummer Joe Spurgeon) they decided not to be actively part, giving way to a radical change in the group with new members who create the sound of Night Lifea return to the most chaotic edge of his music by the hand of the producer Yves Rothman (Miya Folick, Blondshell, Yves tumor).
“We were working in a completely new way, which was more like a kind of 'do it yourself', as a return to the basics, as a kind of homemade demonstration. Many of these, well, most of the songs began to create here in the house. (…) I was trying to start an idea and then Faris He came and worked together in her. So, it was a very different way of working for us. ”
Webb He says that, for them, it was a refreshing experience, to join the vocalist Faris Badwan To create a new way of working closer, only two in the process. “It is simply a kind of magical experience to create music and (…) give life to your ideas.” But maintaining that atmosphere that makes them. “I feel that perhaps we get too close to light for my liking (…). I was anxious to return to darkness, shadows and make music heavier, aggressive, noisy, confrontative and direct,” he said.
I would never lose love by the way or music and different types of sounds, such as revival garage, as you want to call it. But we always did it … I feel that we didn't want to be traditional in that concept. But yes, our musical tastes are constantly evolving. I am still inspired by post punk ideas. Bands such as Public Image Ltd, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle (…) ”.
Rhys comments that “much of the music was inspired by the battle and experience of Faris With insomnia and what he saw and experienced in his nightlife. I feel that I can't give you the exact plot, but it would be about people's lives after dusk. ” Night Life It is an ode at night and its contrasts: the enigmatic, the destructive, the liberating and the mysterious, like a lynch movie in which everything can get out of control.
You can listen to the new album from The Horrs, Night Life. Available on all platforms as of March 21.
