Primary Colours (album)

This article is about the album by The Horrors. For the article on colours, see Primary color. For the Day After Tomorrow album, see Primary Colors (album). For the Eddy Current Suppression Ring album, see Primary Colours (Eddy Current Suppression Ring album).
Primary Colours
Studio album by The Horrors
Released 21 April 2009
Recorded 2008
Genre Shoegaze, post-punk revival
Length 45:28
Label XL
Producer The Horrors, Geoff Barrow, Craig Silvey, Chris Cunningham
The Horrors chronology
Strange House
(2007)		 Primary Colours
(2009)		 Skying
(2011)
Singles from Primary Colours
  1. "Sea Within a Sea"
    Released: 17 March 2009
  2. "Who Can Say"
    Released: 11 May 2009
  3. "Mirror's Image"
    Released: 14 August 2009
  4. "Whole New Way"
    Released: 4 October 2009
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The A.V. ClubB+[3]
Drowned in Sound9/10[4]
The Guardian[5]
NME9/10[6]
No Ripcord10/10[7]
Pitchfork Media7.6/10[8]
PopMatters5/10[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
URB[11]

Primary Colours is the second studio album by British post-punk revival band The Horrors. It was released in the US on 21 April 2009, and in the UK on 4 May 2009 by XL Recordings. The album charted on the UK Albums Chart at No. 25. According to aggregating website Metacritic, the record was met with "universal critical acclaim", receiving a normalised score of 82% based on 19 reviews.[12] On 21 July 2009, the album was announced as one of the 12 albums shortlisted for the year's Mercury Prize award.[13] Primary Colours was named the best album of the year by NME and in 2013 they named it the 218th greatest album of all time.[14]

Album history

At the end of 2007, The Horrors announced the forthcoming recording of a new album. The album was produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead, Craig Silvey and music video director Chris Cunningham. Recording took place in Bath during the summer of 2008. The band signed to XL Recordings after they left Loog Records in 2007. Regarding their time in the studio, band member Rhys "Spider" Webb commented: "We had such an amazing time working on it, writing it and getting lost in it... we'd wander into the studio, and then never want to leave."[15]

Prior to the album's release, the band released a cover of Suicide's "Shadazz" on a split single released by Blast First Petite as part of their tribute to Alan Vega in October 2008. On 17 March 2009, the eight-minute music video for "Sea Within a Sea", directed by former Jesus and Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, was posted on the band's website. The song was released as a digital download-only single, and full details of Primary Colours also surfaced. Following the album's release, the single "Who Can Say" was released on 7" vinyl.[16]

In a preview article, music journalist Mike Diver commented that the album was "set to be one of the year's best" and that it was "wholly worth all the hype that's attracted to its unexpected brilliance."[17]

Track listing

  1. "Mirror's Image" – 4:51
  2. "Three Decades" – 2:50
  3. "Who Can Say" – 3:41
  4. "Do You Remember" – 3:28
  5. "New Ice Age" – 4:25
  6. "Scarlet Fields" – 4:43
  7. "I Only Think of You" – 7:07
  8. "I Can't Control Myself" – 3:28
  9. "Primary Colours" – 3:02
  10. "Sea Within a Sea" – 7:59
Japan-only bonus tracks
  1. "You Could Never Tell" – 3:30
  2. "Whole New Way" – 4:58
  3. "Sea Within a Sea" (enhanced video) – 8:24

Credits

Chart performance

Chart Provider(s) Peak
position
Belgium Walloon Albums Chart[18] IFPI 40
France Physical Albums Chart[18] SNEP 141
UK Albums Chart[19] BPI 25

References

  1. ↑ "Primary Colours – The Horrors – Critic Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Primary Colours: The Horrors – Review", allmusic.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  3. ↑ "Primary Colours", avclub.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  4. ↑ "The Horrors – Primary Colours", drownedinsound.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  5. ↑ Lynskey, Dorian (1 May 2009), "The Horrors: Primary Colours", guardian.co.uk (London), retrieved 8 July 2011
  6. ↑ "Album review: The Horrors, Primary Colours", nme.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  7. ↑ "The Horrors: Primary Colours", noripcord.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  8. ↑ "The Horrors: Primary Colours", pitchfork.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  9. ↑ "The Horrors: Primary Colours", popmatters.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  10. ↑ "The Horrors: Primary Colours", popmatters.com
  11. ↑ "Horrors, The – Primary Colours", urb.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  12. ↑ "Primary Colours – The Horrors", metacritic.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  13. ↑ "The Horrors – Primary Colours", bbc.co.uk, retrieved 8 July 2011
  14. ↑ NME's 500 Greatest Albums of all time. Consequence of Sound http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/10/the-top-500-albums-of-all-time-according-to-nme/. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ↑ "The Horrors Interview: The returning five-piece on 'Primary Colours'", clashmusic.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  16. ↑ The Horrors new single and tour, retrieved 8 July 2011
  17. ↑ "The Horrors Album Preview: 'Primary Colours' seems set to be one of the year's best...", clashmusic.com, retrieved 8 July 2011
  18. 1 2 "lescharts.com – The Horrors – Primary Colours:". lescharts.com. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
  19. ↑ "Horrors – Primary Colours", acharts.us, retrieved 8 July 2011
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