Best New Music: Cherry Ghost

From murder ballads with skulking strings -- to harrowing narratives awash in vamping -- Manchester's Cherry Ghost are first and foremost mood-makers -- and the dominant mood on Beneath This Burning Shoreline, their second full-length on Heavenly Records -- is one of restlessness and brooding: ambivalent lovers and unlikely heroes searching -- for love, peace, and personal understanding -- and always coming up short-handed, if not wiser for the wear.

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And while it may be dark, it's certainly engaging --gothic undertones resonating in your brain, as you're flooded with images of dusty roads, deserted grave yards and caped avengers who flee into the night -- leaving lovers and widows only to pick up the pieces.

Google image 10 for "gothic landscape." Exactly how I pictured it!

Wanna read more? Check out my full review of this cinematic pleaser at your go-to-spot for all things musical, Phrequency.com.

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