Posts tagged "goth"

Support Good Music in 2011: Chapter 4 (Ulterior)

Wild in Wildlife is how you do a debut. If Hollywood ever gets so stupid that they have to remake The Hunger then I will be the first person to campaign for Ulterior to do the entire score. A UK-based rawk band, Ulterior’s first full-length just came out a few months ago but is easily one of the best albums this year. “Sex War Sex Cars Sex” is that song playing during the club scene in that ’80’s movie where the hero/heroine […]

White Lies Round 2

Ian Curtis is rolling over in his grave. Not because the latest album by White Lies is a rip-off of Joy Division but because if Curtis were alive today, this is the kind of music he would be making.  Ritual is a throwback to a great era. It’s an homage. It’s the first must-have album of 2011. Forget all the comparisons to contemporaries like Interpol and Editors, Ritual raises the bar and sets them apart from all. If Man Ray […]