Album Review: The Horrors - Skying

The Horrors - Skying

This is an album that's been on my 'must listen' radar since I first heard the mesmeric single Still Life a few months back. Having not previously had any interest in the Horrors I wondered, perhaps, whether Skying was as goos as the critics made out and whether there was actually some musical talent lurking in Faris and his motley crew.

Sadly, it seems that 'no' is the answer. Skying is a jumbled mess of noises that sounds a bit like a few blokes jamming in the back room of a pub. It does have its moments - the single Still Life is a haunting, dramatic and excellent single - although most of the rest of the album plods along in the most uninspiring of ways. With two eight minute 'epics' to negotiate - the far too long Moving Further Away and Oceans Burning - the end of Skying can't really come soon enough.

It's fair that this album could be a 'grower', but after two listens I frankly don't ever want to hear it again.