{"id":493,"date":"2013-12-03T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=493"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:35:31","slug":"night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Sins <br>To London or the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-494\" alt=\"Night Sins, To London or the Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>If you are one of the minions patiently holding your breath until the Sisters of Mercy release a new album, asphyxiation has either already come or is no doubt nearing. Although they played some live dates in Europe last year, those legendary goths have shown no sign of having a new record on the horizon. Fortunately, that\u2019s where Night Sins come in. One listen of the band\u2019s new album, <i>To London or the Lake<\/i> (Avant! Records)\u2014or the band\u2019s debut, <i>New Grave<\/i>, for that matter\u2014and it\u2019s hard not to envision principal sinner Kyle Kimball as some Eldritch offspring, borne into the world replete with leather jacket and shades.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is impossible not to hear something of the Sisters when Kimball bellows about lying down for the KGB on \u201cBound \u2019Round the World.\u201d Like on much of the record, here he juxtaposes mechanical snare cracks with a big bassline under darkened synths, a precarious formula that could sound soulless and contrived instead of emotionally icy if he\u2019s not careful. Fortunately, Kimball pulls it off, and tracks like \u201cAir Dance\u201d and \u201cEvangeline\u201d reveal enough ardor amongst the stoicism to give the record an undeniable heartbeat. Especially on the latter, where Kimball sounds like he\u2019s at the end of his proverbial rope, there\u2019s more fervor than detachment. As such, despite the obvious influences, the record is distinctive enough that it doesn\u2019t feel like you\u2019re listening to a carbon copy from goth\u2019s heyday, but rather like something you\u2019ve been desperately missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are one of the minions patiently holding your breath until the Sisters of Mercy release a new album, asphyxiation has either already come or is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,189,188],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-avant-records","tag-night-sins"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Night Sins To London or the Lake - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Night Sins To London or the Lake - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you are one of the minions patiently holding your breath until the Sisters of Mercy release a new album, asphyxiation has either already come or is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-03T15:00:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-11T16:35:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Stephen Slaybaugh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@agitreader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@agitreader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Stephen Slaybaugh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Stephen Slaybaugh\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/#\/schema\/person\/4c0a2e33892559e5e2d68fa9de669d89\"},\"headline\":\"Night Sins To London or the Lake\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-03T15:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-11T16:35:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/\"},\"wordCount\":267,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/night-sins-to-london-or-the-lake\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/night_sins-to_london_or_the_lake.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Album Review\",\"Avant! 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