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Jun 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts The Horrors

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British five-piece The Horrors have announced their fifth album, the fittingly titled V. It’s due out September 22 via Wolftone/Caroline and includes the recently released single “Machine.” Below are the tracklist and cover art, followed by “Machine” again and the band’s U.K. tour dates (U.S. dates are promised soon).

Paul Epworth (London Grammar, Florence and the Machine, Bloc Party, Adele) produced V at the Church Studios, in North London. It’s the follow-up to 2014’s Luminous.

A press release promises that the album is diverse and that the band refuses “to stand still.” As lead singer Faris Badwan puts it in the press release: “It is a risk. But life isn’t much fun without risk. It’s the antithesis of being creative if you know what you’re going to be doing every time.”

Keyboardist Tom Cowan adds in the press release: “It’s natural, if you do see yourself as an artist, to progress and not play it safe. Bowie pre-empted the modern condition of not being able to stay in one place for very long, and I get frustrated with bands who stay still. Because then it does become a career.”

Bassist Rhys Webb also had this to say: “When we started, we had a very clear idea of what we wanted to do, which was to make as furious a noise as possible, a fast and violent racket. But even though we started with this punky garage sound there was always this real spirit of wanting to experiment and explore.”

V Tracklist:

01. Hologram
02. Press Enter To Exit
03. Machine
04. Ghost
05. Two Way Mirror
06. Weighed Down
07. World Below
08. Gathering
09. It’s A Good Life
10. Something To Remember Me By

The Horrors Tour Dates:

Jul 11 London, UK - Omeara
Jul 14 Southwold, UK - Henham Park
Oct 16 Belfast, UK - Mandela Hall
Oct 17 Dublin, IE - Tivoli
Oct 19 Glasgow, UK - QMU
Oct 20 Newcastle, UK - Newcastle University
Oct 21 Leeds, UK - Leeds University
Oct 22 Liverpool, UK - Academy 1
Oct 24 Birmingham, UK - Institute
Oct 25 Bristol, UK - Bierkeller
Oct 26 Cambridge, UK - The Junction
Oct 28 Brighton, UK - Acca
Oct 29 London, UK - Koko

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