‘She is the New Thing’ is the follow-up single to ‘Gloves’ taken from the band’s recent debut album, ‘Strange House’. It is a dark tale of growing boredom with the ‘new’, in this case, a girl. She is rather objectified, “the kind I’d hope to see hanging on a wall”. Sex and death imagery is intrinsic to this song as it is to the Horrors’ output in general.

Opening with their trademark 60s garage guitar twirls, Hammond organ swirls and steady rhythm, the picture is completed by Faris’ cold, demonic vocals. Dirty Victorian London streets full of superior top hats and down-and-outs mixing in the stinking filthy wasteland comes to mind. Somehow it’s rather alluring, like the novel Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

This is another shady slice of Horridness sure to appeal to their fans, especially with that Nick Zinner-produced B-side.

(4/5)