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The Horrors have collaborated with Damon Albarn for the upcoming Gorrilaz album, due for release next year. After Albarn listened to the Mercury nominated band’s second album, Primary Colors, he got in touch.

Rhys Webb, bassist for the Horrors, tells BBC 6 music news: “He got a copy of it really early, contacted us out completely out of the blue and told us how much he liked it.”
Albarn was also quick to offer his services mixing the Horrors’ upcoming single, “Whole New Way.”

The Horrors may have been a bit surprised at Albarn’s interest in them, but in the end who could refuse the chance to collaborate on the next Gorrilaz album?
Webb went on: “It was kind of a strange email saying, ‘Would you guys be able to come down to my studio at some point?’ We had no idea really what it was about but thought that it would be great to go down there, have a chat, it would be nice to meet him.

“We went down to the studio and he said, ‘We’re working on the new album and we’ve not collaborated with a guitar band before and your album is one of the most exciting things I’ve heard in a long time. Would you be up for working on a track?’”

The meeting led to Albarn remixing (as the band hadn’t been happy with the original mixing) of their song, “Whole New Way,” and Webb tells BBC that Albarn and Blur have been a big influence to the band.