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Concert Review: The Horrors
The Horrors at the Echo
LA Record:
MONDAY, MARCH 19 2007: If in some strange future world, someone looked into an expansive compendium of music from the 21st century, under the heading “Nightmare-Mod-Rock” would be a single photo of The Horrors. Yet at the U.K. band’s first show in Los Angeles, they probably resembled the Sex Pistols in their infancy: lots of aesthetics and not much experience. With their Addam’s Family attire and botched beauty-college hair cuts, they certainly looked the part of internationally hyped media darlings. They’re a band that has money written all over them, especially in L.A.’s new mutation of the focus-group-oriented consumer-ravaged “punk rock” scene. The show started with a swirl of noise as Faris, the lead growler, stood center stage with his teased hair obscuring his eyes while he unpeeled a banana. They then opened their casket of revitalized Link-Wray-meets-Morrison-on-the-precipice-of-insanity Doors and gyrated like snake dancers. The songs were solid enough, especially “Count In Fives” and “Sheena is a Parasite,” to which Chris Cunningham directed a fantastically surreal video, but the Echo’s sound lacked the punch that they drip on recordings. They tore through their set with a breakneck pace, hitting all the necessary rockers from their Myspace page (which were the only songs to which people actually danced), and leaving the Echo’s small stage empty with the crowd waiting for an encore. They never came back and the audience left as bewildered as the salivating label execs waiting outside with blank checks in hand.
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