When it comes to the 80s stylings that so gloriously define The Horrors' new album Skying, I Can See Through You ranks relatively low down. Compared to the dreamy, flanged guitar of Dive In or the majestic synth-epic Moving Further Away, it feels a far leaner, more bared-to-the-bone creation.
Certainly in terms of richness, it's not as involving as the magical, enchanting sea of intricacy the rest of the album stands as - but as a storming tour de force and exercise in a track that you just know would be incredible to see live, it more than gets the job done.
What I Can See Through You really represents is The Horrors making a stab at a proper 'pop' moment and for a band so often depicted as nothing more than gloomy indie types, it's amazingly good.
Fat, juicy bass pulses away behind the defiant cries of the chorus, high-pitched whines of organ underpinning that grimy crunch of guitar that ties Skying together as an album.
Previous single Still Life was a real masterpiece - the perfect introduction to exactly what this new incarnation of The Horrors was all about. I Can See Through You feels then like its brawling, rumbustious younger cousin, spoiling for a fight; fists up and ready.
Where Still Life shone in its rapturous, considered slow-beauty, here The Horrors hit the ground running, sweeping away all before them. Top stuff.
I Can See Through You is available to download from iTunes now.
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