The Horrors’ swooping, dance-informed new album Luminous came out yesterday, and it’s our Album Of The Week during a week when a lot of big albums came out. On the most recent episode of the BBC show Later… With Jools Holland, the band rolled through to play the sweeping single “So Now You Know.”...

Album Of The Week was a straight-up dogfight this week, a brutally even match between two strong competitors. In one corner, there was Lykke Li’s beautifully heart-trampled breakup album I Never Learn, in which Li ditches all her kinda-cute dance-pop tics and goes straight for the emotional jugular. For a breakup album, this one takes ...

Next week, the constantly-evolving British rock band the Horrors will release Luminous, their fourth album, and it’s a good one. The album is full of these vast, echoing synthpop anthems, and it reminds me of the short moment where Britpop and dance music bled over into one another and made for all these brief one-off [...]

The Horrors are basically a psychedelic synths-and-guitars band, but they’re also the sort of band who gleefully defies categorization. And as it turns out, they’re the type of band who can knock out an awesome cover of a Chicago house classic at will. The Chicago house music originator Frankie Knuckles died a few weeks ago, ...

Psychedelic British chameleons the Horrors are about to return with Luminous, their first album in four years, and now they’ve made a video for “So Now You Know,” which follows the expansive “I See You” as the second album track they’ve shared. The video depicts a group of suspiciously ...