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
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