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Product details

  • Audio CD (5 Mar 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B000MV91PW
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,964 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  2. Count In Fives 3:13£0.69
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Listen10. Gil Sleeping 4:51£0.69
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Listen12. Death At The Chapel 2:19£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Ghoulish dandies clad in jeans so tight they should barely accommodate a skeletal femur, much early discussion of Southend's The Horrors has revolved around their look, not their music. Pleasing to note, then, that their debut album, Strange House, is actually pretty exceptional. Part sinister Cramps-style gothic rockabilly and part organ-fuelled '60s psychedelia, delivered at a nervy post-Libertines rattle, you'd be lying if you were to venture these eleven tracks were especially original. But The Horrors can certainly whip up a chilling enough atmosphere, mostly due to the cadaverous bark of frontman Faris Rotter and the humming organ riffs of Spider Webb. Their haywire cover of 'Jack The Ripper' by Screaming Lord Such is a deliciously morbid revival, but it's not the only judicious feat of musical grave-robbing: debut single 'Sheena Is A Parasite' draws not just title but breathless brevity from The Ramones' 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker', while 'Excellent Choice' offers up a spoken-word tale with a grisly ending, a la the Velvet Underground’s 'The Gift'. All in all, it'll shake your bones. --Louis Pattison


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'Strange House' is the debut album from Southend's latest musical export, The Horrors. A raucous mixture of late-60's psychedelia, rockabilly and malevolent indie splendour, the album is an assured melting pot of influences that proves that The Horrors are a band that have so much more going for them than their image alone. Includes the singles 'Sheena Is AParasite', 'Count In Fives' and 'Gloves'.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Ed Wood would..., 6 Mar 2007
This is EXACTLY what the youth of today need - escapist fun from Southend's finest gothabilly misfits. Forget all your regular indie kid nonsense - it's time for The Horrors to 'stake' their claim right through the heart of the listening teenagers out there. Referencing 'alternative' (as it used to be called) bands that should have disbanded years before this band was even born, they bring a malevolent sense of fun back into pop - and a long-missed overdose of make up and hair products. Think The Cramps meets The Damned meets John Cooper Clarke meets Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster meets Bauhaus meets L'Oreal. And why? Because they are worth it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I got the Horrors, 23 Mar 2007
By Howard Change (Fishbourne) - See all my reviews
I was really hoping they'd be as good as they look and in fact they are better. Great obscure cover version of Screaming Lord Sutch track. Ace keyoards and guitar. Vocals a bit Vanian-like but all the better for it. They sound raw enough to be 60s Garage Band, and yet (also like 60s garage bands) you know they are well brought up lads who love their mums! I'd recommend this album - thoroughly enjoyable.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius record, 19 Mar 2007
By J. P. Oldham (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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What makes this record so amazing isn't so much its total non conformity with everything else currently going on in British music (although that is pretty brilliant), but the fact that it's a great album on its own terms. Menacing, deranged and utterly thrilling throughout, it's a record that stands up to other great debuts such as 'Songs The Lord Taught Us', 'Psychocandy' etc. Anyone who references an also ran like Eighties Matchbox simply doesn't understand The Horrors on any level.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Used to hate it, now I love it
So what if they are taking the piss with the black clothes, dyed hair and all that? I bought this album and listened to about 3 songs before putting it in a draw for about a year,... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars New Values
Thank God for the Horrors !!! At long last a young British band that are more influenced by the GUN CLUB and D.A.F than the bloody BEATLES !
Published 6 months ago by Penthouse Pet

2.0 out of 5 stars Yeah, but they're not very good are they...
If you have ever heard the band The Birthday Party or Bauhaus, The Horrors will irritate you intensely. The Horrors are all image, no content of any kind whatsoever. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ed Phillips

4.0 out of 5 stars WELL SOLID
this is a fantastic album.
after the first listen you may dissmiss it as a gothic mess, but after a couple of listens and closer inspection of the lyrics you'll find that... Read more
Published 20 months ago by vincent brain

1.0 out of 5 stars Trying too hard.
I wanted to like this i really did. But its boring and down right dull. Trying too hard to be scary. The whole image and everything is manufactured. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Geogry boy

1.0 out of 5 stars Yuk!
poor poor album. Havnt given 1 star before but this is tame boring stuff. As stated in the press a much inferior rip off of the great Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. C. J. haywood

5.0 out of 5 stars GRIMLY FIENDISH!
This album is pretty awesome I mean, you can argue alot of bands around now are different but basically they aren't, The Klaxons, The Libertines, any punk bands they're all part... Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Machen

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Horror!Not A Classic
I always think that people are over generous with the star rating they give albums on this site! The Horrors album 'strange house' is by no means a classic! Read more
Published 24 months ago by L. porter

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun, noisy blast!
The Horrors come across like a cross between early Birthday Party and mid-period Damned with a hint of Radio Birdman thrown in. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2007 by John Beers

1.0 out of 5 stars Appaling.
This album is total garbage. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster are an aquired taste...I understand that... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2007 by Reggie

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