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Rating: Let's try with a recipe: take the Sisters of Mercy and put them in the cauldron, letting them simmer on a slow fire. Then add the glamorous rhetoric of the more exhibitionist White Duke and the dark sound of various dark bands from England of a couple of decades ago; cook patiently, adding a pinch of fashionable nihilism, a strong inclination for live performance, and the (falsely) inconsolable mood of the black-dressed youngsters. There you go, if the cooking times are just right, the cauldron should produce London After Midnight, ready to be served at the table. An LA-origin dish perfect for the Zillo festival et similia. Probably the most important receptacle of gothic rock moods from the troubled nineties. A single recommendation: if you're the type who "ahh no, I only like Pink Floyd and Serious Music" (a statement worthy of debate accompanied by batons), this dish is not for you, it will be indigestible. It is necessary, in short, to dispel any doubts by revealing the murderer: it is easy-listening for vampire ears.
This album was released in 1996, in the midst of the flannel-checkered-shirt era, and contrasts with that Cobainian aesthetic of self-destruction with the glitter and sequins of gothic transvestism, facade existentialism for revelers with a penchant for the macabre, pure melodramatic rhetoric. Given these premises, the various tracks faithfully respond to the style of this imagery: "The Bondage Song", "Innocence Lost", "Hate", and "Letter To God"... predictable and comfortingly easy ballads adorned with that winking cursedness reinforced by Sean Brennan's remarkable vocal quality, the singer, guitarist, and, indeed, deus ex machina of the LAM. The success of this group lies mainly in the spectacular nature of their concerts and their haunted house theatricality.
London After Midnight is no longer the gloomy city of the old smelly docks where the shadow of the good Jack the Ripper roamed for ultraviolence feasts. They have rebuilt London with steel and glass, and now it is elegant and brightly lit, a new ville lumiere a bit sly and a bit ruthless where you find everything...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Psycho Magnet (04:17)
Such a wretched waste of time
such a fool to be so blind
serpents hide behind your eyes
and I'm their prey tonight
Can we end this mind fuck please, your treachery's beyond belief
must you bring us to our knees with your psychopathic tendencies?
Please be gone and rest assured I see you as you are, perverse
with all your lies and empty words- I fear for you there is no cure.
Here we go another game
designed to butcher someone's brain
is that emotion I see feigned?
all reason's lost on the insane
Can we end this mind fuck please, your treachery's beyond belief
must you bring us to our knees with your psychopathic tendencies?
Please be gone and rest assured I see you as you are, perverse
with all your lies and empty words- I fear for you there is no cure.
Such a wretched waste of time
such a fool to be so blind
serpents hide behind your eyes
and I'm their prey tonight
Sincerity has not been found
beneath your self appointed crown
these bitter tears in which I drown
will soon be yours to drag you down
Can we end this mind fuck please, your treachery's beyond belief
must you bring us to our knees with your psychopathic tendencies?
Please be gone and rest assured I see you as you are, perverse
with all your lies and empty words- I fear for you there is no cure.
04 Kiss (06:22)
You'll never understand,
the meaning in the end,
we're standing at the gate,
you'll meet the darker fate,
your purity and rage,
your passion and your hate,
you promised more than bliss,
with your God and with your kiss,
I'm on my knees,
I beg your mercy,
my soul is my loss,
I'm well hung from your cross.
Take me,
take me in your arms my love and rape me,
don't hide behind your rage
I know you love me,
and always will,
you're my possession,
of that my love there really is no question,
don't hide behind your rage
I know you love me
and always will,
my better half it's true
has seen the darker side of you,
innocence stripped away,
at least I've the brighter fate...
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