It’s not as challenging as some critics have made it out to be, not when Halo’s grilles of beats can so easily ensnare you, body and mind, like how sheets of rain catches a child in awe.
Both conceptual (in the incorporation of audience and ambient sounds) and not highfalutin (the longest, loudest track is titled ‘For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More’) it’s neo-classical minimalist musique concrète that’s quite a quiet delight for the senses.
This month, JUICE looks at 3 movements whose existence was born from the restriction put on their personal freedom. To quote Marxist rap group The Coup, we are here to “laugh, love, f*ck, and drink liquor; and help make a revolution!”
Before The Horrors arrive for Laneway Festival, we got on a phone with guitarist (and birthday boy!) Joshua Hayward, who illuminates the band’s skyscraping agenda.