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FilterLovers of perverse pop, rejoice! [Summer 2008, p.92]
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Sure there’s a lot of questionable ethical implications with The Black Ghosts mixed in with a good ones, but a goth band with a rock conscious is successful even if their success in breaking through the mold of navel-gazing is Pyrrhic.
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Though a few songs border on being filler, The Black Ghosts is still a promising debut.
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The disenchanted Brits drag their romantic confusions onto the dance floor, where they hope sparkly synths and pulsing club beats will point them toward some much-needed answers. As might be expected, they make little headway, though their wheel-spinning isn't all for naught.
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Under The RadarThis may sound like one too many styles to work, but the fact is, The Black Ghosts works incredibly well because there is an underlying thread of electro sensibility and despondent lyricism that holds the whole thing together. [Summer 2008]
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Thankfully, these are just two misfires, album-cripplingly sandwiched around a triple whammy of floor fillers.