any of these ideas anymore. They've happened.' It's not like that at all. Whatever record we make next is always a very natural evolution, but things do creep back in. 'Endless Blue' This starts laid-back and reflective, probably one of the most mature-sounding pieces The Horrors have ever written. Bass and cymbals eddy around hints of brass... and then, suddenly at 1.45 it turns into a thrashy, guitar piece that reminds me of something... an English Smashing Pumpkins maybe? Another hands-aloft chorus -- there's a definite element here of the Horrors appropriating laddish sounds for the fey. Then in 'Endless Blue', it's interesting. The guitar is pretty heavy on that one, almost thrashy. It felt like the most guitar-y thing you've done in a long time. JH: Yeah. Having our own studio, I discovered the fact that you can play more than ten guitar tracks on a record. And I was just experimenting. TF: There were lots of mics. JH: Yeah, especially because here that door opens up and there's a stairwell up there and I'd come in on a Sunday and the church next door would be going mental, and I wanted to record them a bit. One of those charismatic churches? JH: Yeah, but they used to be exorcising babies. But when they weren't making a load of noise, you could put mics all around the building and it would be loud enough, and it's great because the corridors would resonate. It just used to freak you out.