Ritual Howls "into the water"

I cannot stop listening to this #ritualhowls disc. I've been really into the whole darkwave/goth thing lately. I've stopped short of wearing black eyeliner and fishnets, but that's just external. I've been coddling my inner goth with a lot of music in this vein. I discovered this band on a spotify playlist and immediately looked them up on the bandcamp app. This method of finding music has become my new standard. I used to voraciously consume 'zines and published music journals and then kept various lists of albums that intrigued me. That whole thing is antiquated and i sorely miss it. There are no music stores that carry new releases in my hometown of Buffalo anymore. There are some vinyl specialty shops, but I'll be damned if i start collecting a new format. I have a beloved used cd shop called Frizzbe's but that is a different kind of collecting. Finding other people's discarded treasures, it's rare to find new releases there when they are still new. So cd collecting has become streamlined and unromantic. Maybe that's why I'm into the dark romanticism of this music. It's sinister, cavernous, cold and has vampiric sexuality. Maybe it's that Halloween is around the corner and it's aesthetic is permeating everything in my neighborhood. Whatever it is, this cd is really hitting the spot lately.