Blog: The Mix Tape

Quite where this album came from is a question many won't be able to answer. The Horrors might tell you they always had it in them and we'd have no choice but to take them on their word. Primary Colours sweeps the band from middling rock group to the giddy stratospheres of blinding brilliance. Laden with sonic textures so rough they rub your face off and golden fuzzing guitars that wrap a coil round your brain, this album is perilously seductive. A shock masterpiece that feeds on all that's great about Joy Division, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. [...]