White Lies @ The Potterrow, Edinburgh (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)
White Lies will stay for a second night at London’s Brixton Academy to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album To Lose My Life.
With the original date on December 6th sold-out, a new show has been added for the following night, while they’ll also play Dr Koncertsalen in Copenhagen on November 30th.
White Lies released their latest LP Five earlier this year, and on it ‘have managed to release themselves from the shackles of their successful but increasingly distant past to make an album that, ironically, comes closest to the high level of their debut’, according to Live4ever:
“The cunningly titled Five brings all the ingredients of their once-successful recipe to the boil, with some new garnishes for good measure. It’s book-ended in epic fashion.”
“Opener Time To Give is a good simile for their career to date – after a solid start, four minutes in the mid-section is a seemingly endless circle of synths that ascends through the keys before coming back on itself. Just when you think it can’t go any further, it does. And then it does it again. It’s an ambitious, albeit repetitive, start. Half an hour later, closer Fire And Wings is built around a gentle but striking use of two chords, slow paced but grandiose in tone.”