Violet Cries
Matador's entry into the 2011 goth-pop sweepstakes enlists the xx producer Rodaidh McDonald for their highly anticipated debut LP.
Esben And The Witch struck its most dramatic ice-queen pose on the doom-minus-the-gloom single “Marching Song.” On the rest of its Matador debut, Violet Cries, the Brighton band never summons the same apocalyptic fury. Instead, it contents itself with layering Rachel Davies’ dark, dramatic vocals over arpeggiating,…
Brighton’s Esben & the Witch make enough noise to wake the dead. Named after a Danish fairy tale that’s either about a…
Ethereal, ghostly, otherworldly; the plaudits headed Esben And The Witch’s way since the release of ‘Marching Song’ earlier this year have been pretty unrelenting.
Creepy? Introspective? Preoccupied with disease? <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong> hears Esben and the Witch bring back goth
This Brighton three-piece are gothic in the truest sense, but for all the doom and gloom invoked, Violet Cries is not an unapproachable album. Rating: * * * *