Blog: State Magazine

(Fiction) Ashes to ashes, indie-kids to harbingers of gloom and doom; White Lies ' reincarnation from the forgotten Fear Of Flying to breakthrough act of 2009 brings with it a hard earned maturity in lyric and sound. Bass player Charles Cave's sage words possess a poetic simplicity and speak with powerful eloquence on their favoured subject matter: Death. Each song, rather than wallowing pathetically, faces it with defiance, producing clamorous epics such as, well, 'Death' or powerful anthems such the title track, with its ominous repetition of [...]