The Horrors - Strange HouseRe issue of the UK Top 40 debut album from The Horrors, 'Strange House'; this was their only Polydor release before they signed to XL Records. The opening track is a cover of Screaming Lord Such's 'Jack The Ripper' and the album features the track 'Sheena Is a Parasite'; directed by Chris Cunningham and starring Samantha Morton the video was controversially banned by MTV. Featuring all 11 tracks from the initial pressing this will also include a bonus

and coming up with the formula for the 'boy / girl' songs for which he'd become famous

But it's the romantic croon and heart-tugging chord changes on 'Endlessly' or the the slow devotional 'I Dreamed About Amy Last Night' that will surprise and delight many who think they know Hasil Adkins

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but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve

'Originally made in 1947

I'd just walk up to an instrument somewhere in my house and start writing

then 'Treasure House' takes everything into the great outdoors and shoots it in Technicolor on wide silver-screen

Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon

equally adept at heady drones or twinkling solos

Could Be You€ù works off a steady percussive gallop

Remastered following David McCombs' original production notes (Audiophile Quality)

and stacked-as-fuck three-part vocal harmonies are echoing down the alleys and shaking foundations