Tag Archives: The Horrors

London’s Plaything borrow from shoegaze, Krautrock, and basic psychedelia to create pulsating, hypnotic music. Featuring vocalist/guitarist Tom Dougall, guitarist Dominic O’Dair, bassist/vocalist Maxim Barron, keyboardist Alejandra Diez, and drummer/vocalist Charlie Salvidge, Plaything began playing collectively this year 2010; before developing this group, Dougall, O’Dair, and Barron had been in the …

Producing music that combines shoegaze bliss with grunge catharsis, Brooklyn’s DIIV may be the task of Zachary Cole Smith. Given birth to in NY, Smith started playing acoustic guitar as a boy and became a member of a few rings during his college years, including one with guitarist Andrew Bailey. …

Called after radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ Culture for Reducing Up Guys Manifesto, London’s S.C.U.M. advanced from gothy noise-punk into something even more atmospheric and evocative. The music group produced in 2008, rising in the Underage scene, including club evenings, a celebration, and even more; Underage was founded by keyboardist Samuel …

K-X-P certainly are a Finnish neo-prog music group, led by Timo Kaukolampi (of Op:l Bastards as well as the Lefthanded), that also features bassist/keyboardist Tuomo Puranen, drummer Anssi Nykanen, and electronic percussionist Tomi Leppänen. Joakim Haugland, an archive professional at Smalltown Supersound, understood of Kaukolampi from his creation use Norwegian …

Revisiting the dark grit of early-‘80s post-punk teams, Australian four-piece Slug Guts agreed upon to Stained Circles Reports, house to fellow Australians Eddy Current Suppression Band, within just a few months of playing together. Their initial record, Down on the Meats, was released in ’09 2009. After touring Australia and …

Southend-on-Sea’s Spider & the Flies may be the warped analog synth brainchild from the Horrors’ keyboardist Spider Webb and bassist Tomethy Furse. Influenced by the digital experiments from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop aswell as even more kinetic performers like Juan Atkins, the duo documented technology fiction-tinged instrumentals including “Metallurge” and …