Artist.......: White Lies
Album........: Main Square Festival
Label........: n/A
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-06-11
Str.date.....: 2011-07-02
Quality......: 231kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.whitelies.com/
track title time
1. Main Square Festival 58:49
* Farewell To The Fairground
* Holy Ghost
* To Lose My Life
* Strangers
* E.S.T
* Is Love
* Peace & Quiet
* A Place To Hide
* Death
* Unfinished Business
* The Power & The Glory
* Bigger Than Us
Runtime 58:49
Size 97.23
Release Notes:
A dark-edged trio hailing from London, White Lies take sonic cues from the likes
of Joy Division, the Teardrop Explodes, and Echo & the Bunnymen. Indeed, the
three musicians are so committed to the U.K.'s post-punk scene that they signed
with Fiction Records, a Polydor imprint best known for its '80s releases by the
Cure and the Associates. While attending school in West London, singer/guitarist
Harry McVeigh, bassist/lyricist Charles Cave, and drummer/keyboardist Jack
Lawrence-Brown formed the group in 2004 under the name Fear of Flying. After
releasing two neo-Brit-pop singles on the Young and Lost Club label in 2006 --
"Routemaster" (produced by Brit-pop mainstay Stephen Street) and "Three's a
Crowd" -- the trio changed musical directions, adopted a new name, adapted a
more somber group persona, and began creating doomy material like the funereal
murder ballad "Unfinished Business" and the self-explanatory "Death."
Following the release of the Nick Cave-like "Unfinished Business" in April 2008,
the trio made its television debut on Later with Jools Holland and began
recording a debut album with producers Ed Buller and Max Dingel. "Death" was
released as a single in September 2008, coinciding with the trio's first
headlining tour of the U.K. The band released its debut full-length, To Lose My
Life..., the following year. The album debuted at number one on the U.K. charts.
The band set off on a dizzying world tour, crossing the U.S., Europe, and Japan
and hitting major festivals like Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, and Coachella along
the way. With such a rigorous touring schedule, the bandmembers found writing
difficult, but they eventually made it back into the studio after doing a
stadium tour in support of Muse. Finally able to record, White Lies released
their second album, Ritual, in early 2011.