GRAVE PLEASURES
Post-punk pace-setters return to reclaim the throne
Grave Pleasures: great at everything bar navigating escape rooms
Plagueboys
CENTURY MEDIA
EIGHT YEARS AFTER the release of the first Grave Pleasures album, Dreamcrash, the influence of post-punk on contemporary rock has never been more apparent. Chuck a Bauhaus CD out of the window, and you will almost certainly hit someone wearing a Joy Division t-shirt, if not one promoting one of the countless bands currently obsessed with the bleak, industrial fag-end of the 70s and the gothic glories that came soon after. Always sharper than the average new wave revisionists, Grave Pleasures have conjured a third full-length that casually confirms that no one does this stuff better.