Have you heard The Horrors? You know when you find a band that sounds just like they look? It’s so tremendous. That’s like The Horrors. Totally trashy. Kinda foreign sounding (they’re English but they sound Swedish or something). A bit retro. Like what a Jess Franco film should sound like. Makes me wonder how all that hype gets attached to bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs when The Horrors are the real deal. Just sick garage rock. Beautiful.

I’ll be frank with you: my initial fandom of French Kicks, Strokes, Walkmen, etc faded. Pretty quickly actually. I loved what they were going for originally (or what I thought they were going for) but they all seemed to make a conscious decision to get off the path they were on and go somewhere else. Somewhere I didn’t care for. (more…)