White Lies: 'To Lose My Life'

Since their first gig at the ultra-hip Hoxton Bar & Kitchen last February, White Lies have been burdened with the sort of hype that would kill off a weaker band. However, unlike 2008's great white hopes for guitar music - anyone still remember Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong? - this West London three-piece have more than a couple of swish haircuts to back up the bluster from the trendy press.

With the frosty rock atmospherics of Echo And The Bunnymen and morbid lyrics that make Thom Yorke sound like a children's entertainer ("Our dead loves buried beneath the mud"), they aren't your typical Jo Whiley-friendly band. Their mixture of the robotic and the gothic may hark back to The Cure, Joy Division and Teardrop Explodes, but 'To Lose My Life' successfully wraps these influences into the sort of cinematic anthem U2 used to make before Bono befriended The Pope. Bleak, bold and brimming with potential, White Lies should be a household name by the end of the year.


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