The Horrors

With a sound that spans garage-rock, shoegaze, post-punk, and electronic music, the Horrors are one of the U.K.'s most restless -- and consistently innovative -- bands. They began as a big-haired, black-clad garage punk outfit with 2007's sneering, stomping debut album Strange House, then switched gears completely with the trippy fusions of shoegaze and motorik on 2009's Mercury Prize-nominated Primary Colours. Though they stayed in a psychedelic frame of mind on 2011's acclaimed Skying and 2014's Luminous, by the time of 2017's V, darker industrial tones crept into their music (and took center stage on the 2021 EPs Lout and Against the Blade). The Horrors complemented their lineup changes with another sonic shift on 2025's Night Life, which blended everything they'd done in the past but sounded like another leap forward.