As you know, I'm only an occasional visitor in these parts, nowadays. Thus, forgive me if this is a topic that's been covered at some length elsewhere, but...
Drab Majesty
Just the name was enough to put me off, frankly. Then I heard snippets of their tracks and saw what they looked like. I thought "Nah! They're just taking the piss, and exploiting gullible fellow Millennials by regurgitating stuff from their parents' mixtapes while they're at it!"
Basically...
WRONNNGGG!!!
With this new album of theirs, they've seemingly come of age. It has at least 3 absolutely fantastic tracks on it and is pretty solid throughout, I have to say. I was listening to it in the car on the way to and from work, today, and at points it is so good that I was actually laughing and punching the steering wheel! It's achieved the remarkable feat of - essentially - getting me excited about Goth again!
And here it is.
Head straight for tracks 7, 6 and 4 - in that order, probably - if you want the abridged version.
Frankly, even though they're pretty much a knowing homage, they're so fucking good at it, I don't care! I'm (hopefully) going to see them, a week on Monday, even. (What kind of a day is Monday to be having a London gig? I don't care if you *are* from L.A. - your jetlag can't be *that* bad!)
So, anyway... It's time to 'get your Goth' on! What are the Goth / Cold Wave (if you're from Europe) / New Wave tracks that are in the spirit of Drab Majesty (i.e. lots of reverbed guitar and gated drums) that you love and would even possibly offer up as influences on these (gloriously) precocious upstarts?
Drab Majesty
Just the name was enough to put me off, frankly. Then I heard snippets of their tracks and saw what they looked like. I thought "Nah! They're just taking the piss, and exploiting gullible fellow Millennials by regurgitating stuff from their parents' mixtapes while they're at it!"
Basically...
WRONNNGGG!!!
With this new album of theirs, they've seemingly come of age. It has at least 3 absolutely fantastic tracks on it and is pretty solid throughout, I have to say. I was listening to it in the car on the way to and from work, today, and at points it is so good that I was actually laughing and punching the steering wheel! It's achieved the remarkable feat of - essentially - getting me excited about Goth again!
And here it is.
Head straight for tracks 7, 6 and 4 - in that order, probably - if you want the abridged version.
Frankly, even though they're pretty much a knowing homage, they're so fucking good at it, I don't care! I'm (hopefully) going to see them, a week on Monday, even. (What kind of a day is Monday to be having a London gig? I don't care if you *are* from L.A. - your jetlag can't be *that* bad!)
So, anyway... It's time to 'get your Goth' on! What are the Goth / Cold Wave (if you're from Europe) / New Wave tracks that are in the spirit of Drab Majesty (i.e. lots of reverbed guitar and gated drums) that you love and would even possibly offer up as influences on these (gloriously) precocious upstarts?
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