Last Song.

This is The Horrors. They're from London. This past week, they released their third lp Skying off XL Recordings (home of every artist that seems to matter at the moment, including Radiohead, the XX, and Adele). 

The once punk-and-goth inspired five piece continue to lighten up(only slightly) with lead single "Still Life." 

It's a catchy, synth-filled cut that grows until bam! We got horns! 

I've been reading reviews on other sites(the big fancy blogs you've heard of) that their new sound mimics early Simple Minds. Like those kids ever really listened to Simple Minds. Who makes that up? Regardless it's got that era written all over it. Along with M83's "Midnight City" and Washed Out's "Amor Fati" we're sure building the greatest John Hughes movie soundtrack that never was.  

The Horrors play Bimbo's 365 Club September 10 in San Francisco.

I moved. I like the scenery. While settling in, I stumbled upon this appropriate gem: RAC's mix of Washed Out's "New Theory." 

Stick around folks and read my old blogspot entries below, gloriously unformatted.

You can expect more style and less substance from here on out!

Yucca Valley, CA

"I never had the chance to write about the rooftop in Brooklyn. It was perfect in that after a whole day of sufficiently getting wasted, John's rooftop seemed like the best place to be of all time. This was the New York I'd been imagining for eons; with the M train's hum echoing along its elevated tracks and the Manhattan skyline hanging brightly in the western sky. I called my sister and left a drunkenly laughable, yet sincere voicemail. I had fallen in love, I said - with these people, with this place. With my youth. 

I hung up and stood quietly - the moment was wholly mine. I'm nostalgic for that night more than any other in my entire life."