Wolf Alice. Credit: Jordan Hemingway
After teasing fans of their comeback for the last week, now the Mercury-winners are back with the dreamy and atmospheric ‘The Last Man On Earth’ – an adventurous sonic departure for the band, drifting into an orchestral, latter-day Beatles-esque waltz in the final third as frontwoman Ellie Rowsell sings: “
When your friends are talking, you hardly hear a word – you were the first person here, and the last man on the earth“.
“It’s about the arrogance of humans,” said Rowsell, explaining the lyrics. “I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s
Cat’s Cradle and I had written the line ‘Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god’ in my notes. But then I thought: ‘Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?’”
23 February 2021
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The indie band - made up of Faris Badwan, Rhys Webb, Tom Furse, Joshua Third and Joe Spurgeon - released their new single, Lout , a heavy industrial track, which is taken from their upcoming three-song EP of the same name.
A departure from their most recent music, including 2017 LP, V - which was produced by studio wizard Paul Epworth - the group have self-produced the mini album.
Frontman Faris explained why the band have headed back in an aggressive direction.
He said in a statement: “ Lout is about the relationship between choice and chance, compulsive risk-taking and pushing your luck. As a band, particularly live, we’ve always had an aggressive side and as we began writing new songs it became clear that we were heading in that direction.”
V, the London-based band are making a return with
Lout: a ferocious industrial-metal EP loaded with thrashing guitars and pummeling drums. It is, in the words of bassist Rhys Webb, the “nastiest music” they’ve made in years. “It’s exhilarating,” he explains over Zoom, “it’s just intense, mechanical music.”
The driving force of
Lout is its title track, which is released today as the EP’s main single. As well as marking a bold new sound for the band, the record also comes with a striking new visual identity, headed up by Nowness’ creative director Bunny Kinney and designer Charles Jeffrey. The first teaser of this can be seen in
The Horrors Return With New Single Lout Tuesday, 23 February 2021
The Horrors are back with a new single.
The self-produced Lout serves as the title track and first taste of the band s forthcoming EP, due out on March 12 via Wolf Tone/Virgin Music Label and Artist Services. Other songs on the release include Org and Whiplash.
Lout finds the group making a stylist jump from the frantic garage-rock of their 2017 album V , to more industrial territory, leaning into a heavier aesthetic. Vocalist Faris Badwan said: Lout is about the relationship between choice and chance, compulsive risk-taking and pushing your luck. As a band, particularly live, we ve always had an aggressive side and as we began writing new songs it became clear that we were heading in that direction.
The Horrors, 2021. Photo credit: Charles Jeffrey – LOVERBOY and Bunny Kinney
The Horrors have returned with a brutal new single which is the title track to a new three-track EP, ‘Lout’. Check it out below.
The band’s first new material since their 2017 fifth album ‘V’ marks a striking departure for The Horrors – adopting a new, towering industrial metal sound.
“’Lout’ is about the relationship between choice and chance, compulsive risk-taking and pushing your luck,” said frontman Faris Badwan. “As a band, particularly live, we’ve always had an aggressive side and as we began writing new songs it became clear that we were heading in that direction.”