Nite Songs

  "Are you confused by the chaos? If so it's no surprise/We all stand next to Jesus 'cos with Satan, we're both the same"  - Love & Rockets  - An American Dream Love & Rockets are one of those bands who will arguably always be fighting to be heard over the echoes of their former band and it seems ironic that I'm doing a look back at their Express  album the same weekend as I've reviewed a new Bauhaus single in the Singles Bar. And that's a real shame because, for their first two albums at least, I'd put them right up there with their former group in terms of quality. Mixing sinister goth dynamics with blissful psychedelia, they put a whole different spin on the genre which stood apart from what pretty much everyone else was doing and they deserve credit for it. It's weird because I haven't really gone into my love of goth music much in the SFTJ and GDR columns over the last couple of years. I suppose because it would be my mid-twent...

Our monthly trip to the Singles Bar takes place a bit earlier than usual this month as we’ve got a Sounds From The Junkshop Footnotes feature coming up next Saturday for you to look forward to. Not that it’s led to a smaller haul than normal with no less than fourteen (count ‘em!) new releases in this month’s column. Enjoy… *** And we're kicking off with some proper goth royalty here in the form of a new Bauhaus  single, their first in fourteen years no less, Drink The New Wine  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑). It's certainly an odd beast (then again, would you expect anything less?) with about four different sections including spaced out lyrics about being taken off to the funny farm then bass heavy dub then gentle acoustic guitars. Something of a dark epic here but it's naggingly insistent in its weirdness and doesn't let you go throughout. Is a new album in the works? Dunno but even if not, this is an intriguingly addictive slice of weirdness which could only have come from the minds o...