quite a few watery references in the names of tracks. TF: Yeah, and the lyrics. I was reading through them last night, actually. Was that something that just unconsciously happened? TF: You'd have to ask Faris because I don't want to say this about his lyrics and have it not be true, but I guess underwater, in space, flying...all those feelings are quite similar, aren't they? Movement and motion works just as well in water as it does in the air. Space is another one I really like. Space-themed music or anything kind of futuristic. I think the Horrors are quite a cosmic band these days JH: Definitely. Very cosmic. 'Still Life' Simple Minds! The one that sounds like Simple Minds! This, as we said when the track was released, is not a bad thing at all, and shows that The Horrors have an air for the grandiose that so few of their contemporaries can be doing with. It also shows that, for all the accusations that they're a bunch of poncing fashionistas, they're a group entirely out of step with the current vogue for all things lo-fi. If Alexis Petridis' Guardian review of Suede's Dog Man Star asked where the bands capable of emulating is bravura are today, then The Horrors' go someway to answering that question, though perhaps it'll only be emphatically done on their next album. Thinking about the studio itself, how did you put the gear together? JH: We spent money on the best microphones so