There’s no fault to be found with Skying – truly, every song here hits its mark, and while The Horrors are evidently a band happy to change its spots from record to record

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Skying feels like a watershed of sorts for the band, because if they now want to be seen as more than creators of masterful records

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With Skying, the band has moved on to their own distinct personality by simply evolving.

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‘Skying’ is the fruit of all The Horrors have worked to, and the yield of all they have done. Wholly homemade, from the instruments to the Dalston studio.

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The Horrors’ latest opus, “Skying,” proves nearly as exciting and surprising — the key revelatory element being the group’s embrace of melody and emotion.

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Skying is an epic swash of shoegaze, Britpop, and succulent reverb rock.

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That issue aside, there’s no denying the strength of this release, and the surprising success of the band’s transformation in general.

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Skying boasts countless vague allusions to waking up, seeing things, rain, and/or the ocean.

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With Skying, The Horrors continue to explore familiar territory whilst refining their idiosyncratic slant like proficient tastemakers.

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Skying's starry-eyed, cosmic leanings are complicated by Badwan's slippery, sepulchral presence.

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Skying is very much a record of polar extremes boshed into close proximity.

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This is an album that’s ostentatiously overloaded on melody, and on all-round sonic luxury. This is the one.

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Regardless of where they end up next, the Horrors have already traveled much further than most listeners would have imagined.

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The most fully realized songs on Skying begin as largely conventional pieces of analogue rock, then edge, by degrees, toward deliberate abstraction.

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‘Skying’ may be more inconsistent than ‘Primary Colours’, which was a record that you could call a modern classic without too much of a stretch.

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On their third album, Skying, The Horrors have completely shed all the goth trappings that originally defined them.

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Whether a calculated retreat or just a natural maturation, the Horrors have found a sound more content with background and atmosphere, and it suits them nicely.

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The new album Skying is yet another step forward for a band that, at least publicity-wise, may have started out on top

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Skying lacks the urgency of their raucous goth-punk debut Strange House..

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Skying is swimming with interesting sounds, but it falls a tad short in the songwriting department.

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