White Lies
Jan 17, 2011
London's White Lies incredible sophomore release Ritual is set to release on January 18th via Fiction/Geffen/Interscope Records to an exciting whirlwind of intimate shows stateside, a taping for Fuel TV's The Daily Habit and a January 25th performance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
While the band made a major splash with their dark and enigmatic 2009 debut, To Lose My Life, it is new album Ritual which has taken White Lies into the stratosphere.
The video for single, "Bigger Than Us", now impacting Alternative, directed by Jonas & Francois (Depeche Mode, Madonna, Kanye West), became a viral sensation with over a million and a half hits in its first 3 weeks.
White Lies will support the album release with three special shows on U.S. shores with the exclusive set of gigs to kick off at Seattle's Neumos on January 22nd, the Troubadour in LA on January 24th and wraps January 27th at New York's Highline Ballroom.
Ritual, produced by famed studio wizard Alan Moulder, is the perfect epic follow up to White Lies' impressive debut. Taking us on a sonic journey through dancefloor beats, meets raging guitars and everything in between. The album is fused together perfectly, and all at an incredibly melodic, breakneck speed.
"It's about love with a bit of religion in there as well, a lot of religious imagery," frontman Harry McVeigh explained. "Things like that, they're all rituals. Things you associate with your day-to-day life, but they're also habits."
The band consists of: Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums).
British music critics have hailed White Lies as successors to the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Depeche Mode and The Psychedelic Furs.
Magazine, called lyricist Charles Cave, "A classic doom-rock dreamweaver; Nick Cave meeting Edgar Allen Poe."
The tracklisting for 'Ritual':
- 'Is Love?'
- 'Strangers'
- 'Streetlights'
- 'Bigger Than Us'
- 'Peace & Quiet'
- 'Holy Ghost'
- 'Turn the Bells'
- 'Power & The Glory'
- 'Bad Love'
- 'Come Down'