After 15 years of playing venues and festivals, creative arcs can become a bit stale and predictable. Thoughts about greatest hits compilations or nostalgic anniversary deluxe editions start to creep in. The danger of becoming a facsimile of the self suddenly becomes clear and present. The Horrors in this case are quite the oddity among rock bands operating on a larger scale. Perversely so, the British band—Faris Badwan (lead vocals), Joshua Hayward (guitarist), Tom Furse (keyboardist), Rhys Webb (bassist), and Joe Spurgeon (drummer)—have been content being their uncooperative, volatile selves; chaos agents with a knack for courting unusual circumstances. Not that the band is consciously contrarian in breaking their own continuity, as Badwan casually underscores.
“I feel like we’re a little bit of an anomaly in some ways; we’ve never really been part of a scene with loads of other bands,” he says. “I feel The Horrors have always existed a little bit outside of whatever else is going on. I
