Primary Colours (Album) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Primary Colours is the second studio album by British indie rock band The Horrors. It was released in the US on 21 April 2009, and in the UK on 4 May 2009 by XL Recordings. The album charted on the UK Albums Chart at #25. According to aggregating website Metacritic, the record was met with "universal critical acclaim," receiving a normalised score of 82% based on 19 reviews. On 21 July 2009, the album was announced as one of the twelve albums shortlisted for the year's Mercury Prize award. Primary Colours was named the best album of the year by NME. At the end of 2007, The Horrors announced the forthcoming recording of a new album. The album was produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead, Craig Silvey, and music video director Chris Cunningham. Recording took place in Bath during the summer of 2008. The band signed to XL Recordings after they left Loog Records in 2007.