Top ten albums of 2017. #5 Rope Sect "personae ingratae" I've been having a goth year. Over the last few months ive begun to realise that I've actually always kind of been into goth stuff. I didn't want to be. Goth to me is sort of like being a "deadhead". If you take time to listen the music isnt terrible it's just that all the cultural stuff that it drags behind it makes you repulsed by the social tag. The Grateful Dead's "american beauty " album is actually pretty damn good (just ask Wilco) but hell... crunchy hacky-sack douchbags twirling sticks in faux naturalism makes me want to kick puppys. Goth kids create a similar revulsion in me. But fuck if i dont love the music. Rope Sect are technically more "post punk" sounding (keeping tabs on genre tags is my thing) but the macabre vibe they give off definitely feels goth. This stuff is dramatic, dark and sinister (all prerequisites to make this list apparently) and avoids any of the electronic tendencies of the genre. It creates a sweaty bleeding nihilistic version of the sound as opposed to the vampire dance club version of the goth canon (which i also like).
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