Bela Lugosi may be dead, but true Goth Rock/Post
Punk/whateverthehellyoucallit is not. It lives, like a revenant, in Beastmilk.
I've meant to do a little something on these guys for a
while. I got their album "Climax" a while back, and really enjoyed
it. I just never got around to it though. So, now they've reissued two EPs
("Use Your Deluge" and "White Stains on Black Wax") and I
can't help but tell you about them.
What
these EPs have, that I felt was a little lacking on the album, was rawness. You
see, what made so many of those Goth bands so fun was that they sounded like
they recorded their albums in a basement in New York somewhere, with rats
crawling on the gear, hookers snorting coke off of the stomachs of passed out
bums nearby. These EPs feel that way. Maybe that's not a compliment? But this
is rock and roll, sure it's a compliment. They're powerful, dark, melancholy,
wild at times, and full of ideas. Just listen to "Children of the Atom
Bomb" and tell me you don't feel like you're in an AIDS ravaged
post-apocalyptic night club somewhere in Chiba City.
The album, "Climax", was also very notable. Two
songs really stuck out, "Death Reflects Us" and "Ghosts Out of
Focus." These songs are catchy to the point where I'll still hum them
after going months without hearing them.
Check these guys out, and all their thinly veiled bukakke
references, at their websites (plus, bonus, there's a new single out that I
haven't even heard):
http://beastmilk-official.tumblr.com/
https://beastmilk.bandcamp.com/
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