NEW ALBUMS
HORSEY
Thrice neigh: King Krule associates’ perverse first
Debonair UNTITLED
7/10
“If not in this shit then where the fuck could happiness be?” bellows Horsey’s Archie Marshall on “Sippy Cup”, the infantile two-minute manifesto that leads off the Brixton radicals’ debut album. For lovers of vintage Happy Flowers, Lemon Kittens and Earl Brutus misanthropy, or the ur-psych of Tea & Symphony, it’s song of the century already, but if Debonair cannot keep up that level of “Do The Standing Still” intensity, Horsey’s melding of Henry Cow and Barry Manilow throws up plenty of nasty treats: “Underground”, “Lagoon” et al. A Residents-style conceptual joke that has already got seriously out of hand.