A little over a week ago I had the good fortune of catching the international tour of a great band out of the UK. White Lies played a strong set at a gem of a venue in Indy called Radio Radio. The tickets were cheap, the booze was way overpriced, and the music was pretty much amazing. White Lies was the second band to take the stage and to sum up their performance in as glib a way as possible I would say that they sound like the Killers mashed up with Muse with The Strokes sprinkled over top of a couple of tracks.
mp3 : White Lies - From The Stars
mp3 : White Lies - The Price of Love
Both of these tracks hail from their debut album, To Lose My Life (amazon) (itunes), and I think my reference to the Killers is fairly obvious on both of these tracks {and I guess by saying the Killers I really mean New Order}. Long story short the performance was brilliant, and the songwriting and craftsmanship apparent on this album is something to be heard by all.
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something about them reminds me of the Editors or Interpol but it may just be the low voice.
oh, i could definitely hear the interpol reference now that i listen to the album again. good call.
oh my gosh. I was totally there.
that was a great concert, wasn’t it?? the lead guy has such an incredible stage presence.
Isn’t that how it always is? Cheap tickets but overpriced booze?
I agree with all the above comments, I defintely hear some Interpol influence, but it works for them I think, unlike some other bands that just blatantly rip that band off. I keep on missing them while they’re in town, but I know that they’re on the Josh Schwartz web- series Rockville CA (www.rockvilleca.com), and if anything you save money on booze.
’twas a great show!
I enjoyed that concert… except for the fact that we were drinking PBR… I don’t care what Andy says, that beer is terrible (I almost wrote “for shit,” but then I had a mental image of that…)