What a long, strange trip it’s been to this moment in music. The headlines are all too familiar – major labels are dying, download this, download that, blahblahblah… All the hubbub over technology and filthy lucre has obscured what is becoming increasingly clear: 2009 may be the best year for music in a decade – a veritable golden age, if you will, captured in a twelve-month period.

The Horrors released one of the albums of 2009 with their latest, Primary Colours; “Whole New Way,” a brand new non-lp single, due out in early November, proves they are still the band to beat as we edge into 2010.