White Lies "To Lose My Life"

post-punk revival, gothic rock, indie rock, electro, experimental

Almost every single day I'm searching for new bands and singers for inspiration. Music is my life and it makes my days brighter and, actually...it just makes my days! It's always a fantastic feeling when you find "yours" music. 
The last band that I found for myself was White Lies. An amazing band from United Kingdom, making their "spacious", cosmic and extraordinary music. Maybe somehow they have this special "British-styled" indie sound, but I found them really outstanding.

They play post-punk, indie and gothic rock. 
Honestly, I've never been a big fan of punk rock. When I was a teen, I was a metallist, so we always had kinda "arguments" with punks. But this band really touched me because of their crazy mixture of indie, electro, punk and gothic.
They have recorded 3 albums and the first came out January 2009.

"To Lose My Life..."

This album was the first one that I heard, and it really made me fall in love with their music. It showed White Lies' style and their spicific "move of the sound" in such songs as "To Lose My Life...", "Death", "Farewell To The Fairground".

"Ritual"

This one came out on 17th January, 2011. We can hear much of electro sound here, but it doesn't spoil it. In my opinion, "Ritual" has fully opened a fantastic voice of a soloist - Harry McVeigh. The album full of love, light sound and more positive than the first one, 

even though it has some religious hints. 

"Big TV"

No doubts which album is my favorite - for sure it's "Big TV".

In this album electro sounds are used less, they make a good composition and harmony with extra addition of "old-school" colors which we can notice in songs "Big TV", "Getting Even" and so on. Sound is clearer and it makes this album spectacular. (Cannot forget the song "Change" which impressed me the most).

And in the end, my 10 favorite songs of "White Lies":

1. "Death"
2. "To Lose My Life..."
3. "Strangers"
4. "Big TV"
5. "Change"
6. "Farewell To The Fairground"
7. "Streetlights"
8. "Mother Tongue"
9. "A Place To Hide"
10. "Nothing To Give".