Meagan Dreams Episode 17: I Am A Horror

This week Meagan delves into the discography of The Horrors.

 

Meagan Dreams is weekly on Tuesday at 6pm Pacific time on Eardrum Buzz Radio at www.eardrumbuzz.net

 

Setlist:

EP #1: The Horrors AKA We Are the Horrors (released 2006)

Crawdaddy Simone (cover)  OV: The Syndicate from their album On the Horizon in 1963

Death at the Chapel 

 

First album: Strange House (released 2007)

Single: Sheena is a Parasite 

Request - Little Victories (request from Meg McIntire) 

My choice (non-single): Count in Fives 

 

Second album: Primary Colors (released 2009)

Request - Scarlet Fields (request from Greg Peters) 

My choice: Who Can Say 

Other Single: Sea Within a Sea 

 

Third album: Skying (2011)

Single: I Can See You

My choice: Endless Blue 

 

Inspirations:

CAN - Vitamin C (from Ege Bamyasi, 1972)

Portishead - Strangers (3rd track off of the album Dummy) (1994)

The Jesus Lizard - Thumbscrews (album title is Shot)

Toy - Reasons Why (from eponymously titled debut album, 2012)

 

Fourth album: Luminous (2014)

Single: So Now You Know

My choice: Change Your Mind

Non-single: Falling Star

Other Single: I See You

 

Fifth album: V (2017)

Selected single: Machine

Additional single: Something to Remember Me By

 

Side projects:

 

Let’s Eat Grandma - Hot Pink (2018) co-written and co-produced by Faris Badwan and SOPHIE, from the album titled I’m All Ears

spoken break

Hercules and Love Affair - Controller feat. Faris Badwan (2017) from the album titled Omnion

MIEN - (I’m Tired of) Western Shouting (2018), (single) from the album also titled MIEN

Cat’s Eyes - Chameleon Queen, from the album titled Treasure House (2016)

Tom Furse - A Journey in Ecstasy (Edit), from the album titled Ecstatic Meditations

 

Second and third EPs

 

Lout (released March 2021)

Against the Blade (released November 2021)

 

Live performance of Sea Within a Sea at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019 for the 10th anniversary of Primary Colours

 

NEW SINGLE: The Silence that Remains (released 2024)  only track out so far: The Silence That Remains (for which there is a music video) X

Upcoming sixth album: Night Life, slated for release on March 25th, 2025

 

Track lineup for Night Life, per Pitchfork:

01 Ariel

02 Silent Sister

03 The Silence That Remains

04 Trial by Fire

05 The Feeling Is Gone

06 Lotus Eater

07 More Than Life

08 When the Rhythm Breaks

09 LA Runaway

 

END

 

The Horrors are

 

Faris Badwan *

Joshua Hayward *

Rhys Webb *

 

New members are

 

Amelia Kidd - keyboards and vocals

Jordan Cook - drums (formerly of Telegram)

 

Former Horrors are

 

Tom Furse 

Joe Spurgeon