White Lies – To Lose My Life
This nugget of information was posted on 16/02/09 at 11:04 pm by Simon and is filed under Album, Reviews.
White Lies arrive as possibly the first hyped band of 2009. This debut arrives fully formed with widescreen choruses of stadium dimensions. It’s all shamelessly Joy Divisionesque with Ian Curtis phrasing and Hooky Bass lines. Imagine the The Editors but on a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs. Same building blocks, much stronger result.
So it’s synths and bass lines to the fore with guitars coming in to emphasise a point rather than leading the dance. Title track, To Lose my Life deserves to be a huge hit but E.S.T. Fifty on Our Foreheads and Death are equally good.
Derivative? Certainly, but absorbing none the less.
7.5/10
Had a listen? What did you think?
(4 votes, average: 7.75 out of 10)
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February 21st, 2009 at 5:15 am
My Dear Simon, A frustrating part of being the age i find myself is the loss of the element of surprise and joy when you hear something good, new and exciting. However every now and then you hear something that ticks the boxes you thought were dead and gone. White Lies did this for me. Tunes are the bollocks simple as that.
Music for the people, Roger Mojo
March 4th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Good it may be. It is not, however, ‘Grotesque’ by The Fall.
Das ist die bollocks!!!