Side Project Death Match

Nick Cave's hirsute side project Grinderman get remixed by Faris Badwan's mascara'd side project Cat's Eyes to good and somewhat spooky effect. I imagine no-one involved sees these as side projects, but it's a bit inevitable. Faris Badwan, spindly goth/art-rock front man from the Horrors, has joined up with Canadian classical starlet Rachel Zeffira to make music inspired by Italian horror soundtracks and the 60s girl groups, with an e.p. and album to come. They played their debut gig at the Vatican. Amazingly, they make all these things seem like really good ideas.

When My Baby Comes Cats Eyes Remix.mp3

Clockwork

Two of The Horrors have a side project- Spider And The Flies. The organ player and bassist released an album, Something Clockwork This Way Comes, a year or two ago and this track Metallurge was one of the best things on it. It sounds nothing like the gothic art-rockers The Horrors (who actually went and produced one of last years' best albums), more a couple of kohl eyed kids set loose in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Odd but good.


04 Metallurge.mp3