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 To Lose My Life Oct 19, 2009
This White Lies album is hot. Anyone who buys this album will be very pleased. I haven't found a song by White Lies that i didn't like. They are the best band on the planet.
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Best cd I've heard in a long time! Aug 13, 2009
What can I say? This is like a modern version of some of my fave 80's bands--INXS, Depeche Mode, Psychedelic Furs. I love every track on this cd and have listened to it over and over. I'm amazed that something so complete came out of a debut cd. Fabulous job guys!
DEEP Aug 12, 2009
I really really enjoy this album. My bro got it and we share music. It is really outstanding. I really enjoy the 80s sound. A lil depressing at times but refreshing as well. I love orchestral-rock! 2 thumbs up lol
Gloom never sounded this bright! Jul 22, 2009
White Lies are a Rock trio and their debut CD "To lose my life" has topped the charts in their native UK. Their brand of gloomy danceable Rock with shimmery synths and trilling guitars recalls acts like Editors, Interpol, or even Franz Ferdinand in places. Catchy songs with dark subject matter that get even catchier each time you listen.
Opening cut "Death" and the harrowing sounding "To lose my life" ("Let's grow old together, and die at the same time") and "A place to hide" (nice drumrolls) fall into the Dance/Rock bracket. Slowing things down is "Fifty on our foreheads" (with horns adding to the ambience).
"Unfinished business" with it's hymnal organ intro reminds one of Coldplay's "Fix you" but the lads soon put paid to any such notion. It's a pulsing mid tempo number with chiming guitars which picks up to a galloping pace and lyrics about zombie lovers, a definite standout! "E.S.T" is a shimmery sounding midtempo Rocker with a droning riff (and gloomy lyrics about a Manic depressive), while "From the stars" starts off as a nice ballad (lyrics about a millionaire's breakdown belying such sweetness) before galloping away.
"Farewell to the fairground" is a beautiful song with throbbing synths in the verses and cutting guitars in the chorus against dancey beats, and lyrics about a haunted fair. This is my favourite, along with "Nothing to give" which is a melodramatic piano/string ballad (with percussion and swirling electronic flourishes coming in the final minute), and closing is "The price of love" (interspersed with marching beats, glossy synths and interesting tempo shifts - The Killers would kill for this song, pardon the pun).
Not since The Smiths has doom and gloom sounded like such fun!
 3.5 Stars... Nice (if over-hyped) debut from UK trio Jul 11, 2009
The UK is fertile grounds for a seemingly never-ending supply of the latest "it" rock bands. If it's not, say, the Kooks one year, it's Arctic Monkeys another year, or, say, White Lies this year. The UK trio appeared pretty much out of nowhere in early 2008 with an intruiging EP, "Unfinished Business". The band went to work on its debut album and ahead of that in the Fall released the single "Death". The rest is, as they say, history. The debut album crashed in at No. 1 in the UK album charts.
"White Lies" (10 tracks; 45 min.) starts off with that first single "Death" (1st UK single), which is a nice enough tune. Better still is the next track "To Lose My Life" (2nd UK single). "A Place to Hide" is perhaps the best example of why White Lies are called the 'new' Joy Division. "Unfinished Business" 9from that same EP) closes a nice first half of the album. The second half of the album kicks off with a thunderous "E.S.T.", which is followed by a somber "From the Stairs" (reminding me of latter-days Ultravox). "Farewell TO the Fairground" (3rd UK single) is my favorite track on the album, with stomping bass and drums, just great.
In all, this is a nice debut album, no question. There are a number of stellar highlights on here. But that said, I must admit I have a hard time understanding all the hoopla that this album caused in the UK. White Lies is scheduled to open for Kings On Leon on the pending Fall US tour, and I can't wait to see how these songs and this band resonate in a live setting.
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