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The Mekons - Horrorble (Mekons VS Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) The Mekons
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Limited WHITE VINYL, DL card Limited.
2xCD edition includes the original album ‘Horror’. Vinyl edition includes download card with the original album.
Dub reinterpretation of Mekons’ acclaimed 2025 album ‘Horror’, created in collaboration with Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu).
Recent NPR Tiny Desk session: https://youtu.be/iSwIW7UKjCw?si=Q2vcNCEOA-EvDIFx
Mekons are a legendary group and political DIY collective, often credited with inventing the influential alt-country genre with lyrics about British colonialism, imperialism, war and other issues.
For fans of: Gang of Four, The Pogues, The Fall, The Slits, Wire, Sleaford Mods, Fat White Family, The Gun Club, Crack Cloud, Baxter Dury
‘Horror’ received coverage from Pitchfork, NPR, AllMusic, Rolling Stone, Mojo, Uncut and many more.
Horrorble is a full-length dub reinterpretation of Mekons’ acclaimed 2025 album Horror, created in collaboration with Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu). Songs from Horror are pulled apart and reshaped into a drifting dub landscape. Basslines stretch and dissolve, rhythms echo into open space and tracks are dismantled and reassembled into versions that drift, jar and unravel. Working with Maimone, the album treats dub as subtraction, space and echo rather than simple revision, revealing hidden textures and new emotional weight within the original recordings.
The partnership has deep roots. Mekons first toured with Pere Ubu in 1988 and later worked closely with Maimone in the early 1990s. That shared history informs the exploratory spirit of Horrorble, reframing the urgency of Horror through atmosphere, rhythm and sonic deconstruction.
Featuring a guest appearance from Benji Webbe of Skindred on “Mudcrawlers”, the album transforms familiar material into immersive, echo-laden soundscapes that emphasise tension and depth.
The original Horror confronted climate catastrophe, economic violence and political decay through rock and roll, punk and melody. Horrorble reveals its shadow counterpart. Formed in Leeds in the late 1970s, Mekons have always operated as a collective, working outside trends and expectations. Guided by the belief that the political and personal remain inseparable, they continue to create on their own terms, combining experimentation with a call to organise and resist.
Press Quotes:
“One of the few bands in the history of music that can claim to have birthed a genre” Pitchfork.
“Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll” Lester Bangs.
Track List
A1 Before The Ice Age (Version)
A2 Sad and Sad and Sad (Version)
A3 War Economy (Version)
A4 A Horse Has Escaped (Version)
A5 The Western Design (Version)
A6 Glasgow (Version)
B1 You're Not Singing Anymore (Version)
B2 Private Defense Contractor (Version)
B3 Sanctuary (Version)
B4 Surrender (Version)
B5 Mudcrawlers ft. Benji Webbe (Version)
B6 Fallen Leaves (Version)
Bonus - Dub Crawlers (Version) [Bonus track, DL only].
Horror (Bonus CD in 2xCD only)
1 The Western Design
2 Sad and Sad and Sad
3 Glasgow
4 Fallen Leaves
5 War Economy
6 Mudcrawlers
7 A Horse Has Escaped
8 Private Defense Contractor
9 Sanctuary
10 Surrender
11 You're Not Singing Any More
12 Before The Ice Age
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