Portishead's Geoff Barrow is the man responsible for The Horrors' bold decision to write, record and produce their third album entirely by themselves in a chaotic box of a room in East London. During the sessions for brilliant second album Primary Colours , he sat the band down in a Bristol curry house ("it was a nice curry house" says Tom Furse) and told them to go it alone: "It was a nice curry house," continues the Horrors' synth man. "He said from what I've seen you don't need anyone else, you can go away and do the next one by yourselves. He said 'Just do it in a box', we said 'but we need a studio, Geoff' he said, 'no, just do it in a box.' That seeded the idea, and though we'd thought of it to hear it from him was really encouraging." The Horrors had tried to go to the countryside to record, but things didn't quite work out. "Rhys thought it might be fun to go to the country and really knuckle down," says Furse. "But it was a really uninspiring environment, it was beautiful, it was nice, down in Devon and we cooked wonderful meals, but I think maybe as people we just are more suited to the city. We did get 'Moving Further Away' from it, but it wasn't as exciting or fruitful as this place." He says this is in part because The Horrors are a band who take essential energy from being