
Record Label: Evileye Records
Genre: Goth
Band Link: www.versailles.ro
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Melancholy lyrics and gothy image aside, the music isn’t quite goth or darkwave; it’s more like moody, piano-heavy pop in a singer/songwriter vein. If you like Tori Amos-style singer/songwriter music, there’s a lot of somber material here about childhood pain and broken relationships. It’s delivered competently if (for my tastes) overdone with piano-and-strings mawkishness.
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Record Label: S/R
Genre: Goth
Band Link: www.myspace.com/niteniteband
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I’m a sucker for good soft-goth. Not the scary industrial stuff or corny Evanescence nu-metal, but the broody-but-bouncy, upbeat-though-downcast 80s sound. If you think about it, this genre is all but gone. I can’t think of anything in the past 15 years that has come close to this classic sound, outside of the occasional new Cure or Morrissey release that I haven’t bothered with.
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MySpace Music is proud to exclusively present The Cure Live from Secret Shows album. The legendary rock band performed at the Troubadour for a very special MySpace Music Secret Show in December 2008. The album consists of a compilation of some of their classic and new songs from their latest album 4:13 Dream. Beginning today, the MySpace community and The Cure fans can relive the event and stream the audio from the show for free by visiting The Cure’s official MySpace profile at http://www.myspace.com/thecure.
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