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Silver
Echo & The Bunnymen
Ocean Rain
1984

Allmusic is a pretty great site slash resource that I kind of forget about sometimes. 

I came back to The Horrors's Primary Colours the other day because it is Fall (I've got a bit of the seasonal music cravings in me too, it seems) and because their raucous sound encompasses my mood-of-the-moment.  Listening to that album brought Fall 2009 to the forefront of my mind, and I didn't necessarily want to go there.  I didn't want The Horrors; I wanted something like them.

Looking up a band on Allmusic ends up being a bit like following a trail of breadcrumbs.  One band leads to another leads to another leads to another.  It's the most wonderful breadcrumb trail ever because--if I'm in the right frame of mind--it opens me right up.  I get excited.  I feel like an explorer making the most fantastic discoveries.

Echo & The Bunnymen are listed under The Horrors's "influences".  EATB is one of those band names I have always been familiar with (I remember seeing a couple of their albums in my dad's record collection) but, up to the Allmusic discovery, I had never really heard any of their music.  What a thrill to hear the opening of "Silver" for the first time (and, actually, every single time after that first listen, too).  I love the lilt of this song (I think I use lilting as a song-descriptor quite often--I need some new adjectives!).  Those strings make me positively beam.  Ian McCulloch's voice is this warming thing--like black tea with a touch of milk.