With Ashes and Diamonds Daniel Ash Carries on His Bauhaus Legacy
Emerging from stints with iconic bands like Love and Rockets and Bauhaus, Daniel Ash carries his influence into a new act, Ashes and Diamonds.
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Ghost Exercise Restraint on the Sad ‘Skeletá’
Ghost’s more measured approach lends an appealing atmosphere of sadness, but fans will be clamoring for more energy and menace amidst the garishness next time.
Heartworms’ Debut Makes a Claim For Greatness
Heartworms’ Glutton For Punishment is a highly intelligent, essentially perfect album. At 37 minutes long, it’s a precision-cut diamond.
40 Years of the Cure’s First True Surrealist Pop Album
Forty-year-old The Head on the Door propelled the Cure toward arena stature with its musical cohesion and a collection of hallucinatory yet accessible songs.
Sharon Van Etten Finds New Freedom with Her Band
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory incorporate synths and darker sonic textures that suit the singer’s cerebral thoughts and powerhouse vocals.
Goth Punks AFI Get Their Flowers in New Biography
AFI’s resilience and innovation take center stage in Andi Coulter’s new biography, which is every bit as deserving of praise as more heralded peers.
Ethel Cain’s ‘Perverts’ Is Extremely Terrifying and Haunting
The experience of Ethel Cain’s Perverts is gloomy, powerful, and extremely terrifying. It’s practically a masterclass on how to score for a horror film.
The Cure Lament Aging and Death, Yet Find New Vitality
The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World is a cohesive collection that skews dark, cinematic, meditative exploration of loss in all its forms.
Nick Cave’s ‘Wild God’ Sweeps Through Berlin
The start of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ world tour brings transcendence to the German capital and shows there is no taming the Great Bard.
The Cure’s Long-Awaited New Single “Alone” Is a Celestial Lament
“Alone” is one of the most devastating songs in the Cure’s entire catalogue, evoking an agonizing sense of loss that can deeply resonate with many listeners.
‘The Art of Darkness’ Unburies Goth Music’s Beginnings
John Robb’s The Art of Darkness unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage.
Chelsea Wolfe Takes Unpredictable Turns on Her New LP
Chelsea Wolfe is as uncompromising a poet as she has ever been on She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. The purpose is not to be more of the same.