Starting with the dark, ethereal and pulsing Ariel (see the video below), Night Life is another great addition to The Horrors' discography. Beautiful and emotive soundscapes with dark and brooding beats, gothic rock and brooding atmospheres fill the album. Twenty years on, The Horrors continues to produce excellent music.
What no one thought would ever happen until recently has happened. Ministry have released a new album with reworkings of the much maligned new wave, synth pop era. I always defended With Sympathy as having some great songs and I'm glad that The Squirrely years is now a reality.
The reworkings don't stray too far from the originals. This is not Ministry turning the old pop songs into a heavy dark industrial metal. But, while being respectful to the original songs, the updated songs have a darker tone, a rougher edge, that the sanitised With Sympathy always lacked, elevating the songs.
The Squirrely Years is a great collection of new wave, post punk and synth pop songs and it's, certainly, the most surprising and creative album that Al Jourgensen has put out in a long while.
Now, we need to wait for the new (and possibly final) Ministry album with Paul Barker back in the band. I can't wait to hear what dark alchemy Al and Paul will do.
Starting with the dark, ethereal and pulsing Ariel (see the video below), Night Life is another great addition to The Horrors' discograp...
