The Horrors have shared a new single titled ‘Ariel’ – you can listen to it below.
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The brooding and atmospheric song serves as the opener of the band’s sixth studio album ‘Night Life’, which is due for release on March 21 via Fiction (pre-order/pre-save here).
“‘Ariel’ is a particularly special track, and a group favourite,” Faris Badwan and co. explained said of the eery tune. “It’s probably unlike any song we’ve written before, and kind of marks the beginning of a new chapter.”
They continued: “We are always looking to explore new sonic territories and find new ways for the band to sound, it’s probably what we enjoy most about being in The Horrors.”
The group went on to reveal that ‘Ariel’ “was very much a studio creation”, adding: “We put a distortion-heavy demo down at home and started moulding it into something more subtle at Holy Mountain [Studios] with Yves [Rothman, producer].
“Amelia [Kidd, keys/backing vocals] then added her world of chopped-up rhythms and vocal splices and it felt like we’d reached a new place. The Horrors of the future.”
‘Ariel’ is accompanied by an official music video, directed by Sarah Piantadosi. The suitably dark and grainy visuals find frontman Badwan out in a cold woodland and driving down a snowy road. Tune in above.
The song follows on from the previous ‘Night Life’ singles ‘More Than Life’, ‘Lotus Eater’, ‘Trial By Fire’ and ‘The Silence That Remains’.
Following on from 2017’s ‘V’, the forthcoming LP was recently named as one of NME’s most anticipated album releases of 2025.
The entry read: “[It’s] the first Horrors record that doesn’t feature all five original members: though vocalist Faris Badwan, bassist Rhys Webb and guitarist Joshua Hayward remain, they’ve added Amelia Kidd on keys and Telegram’s Jordan Cook on drums.”
The Horrors are set to play a series of intimate UK record store dates next month, and will appear at Dot To Dot Festival in Bristol and Nottingham in May.
