If you like Bauhaus, you’ll love A Coffin Built For Two by Moth Slut.
A Coffin Built For Two perfectly captures Moth Slut’s fascination with lust, death, blood and devotion. Opening with tolling bells and a funeral pace, the EP is pure 80s goth worship with every cliche turned up to the hilt, but done with fresh conviction and an enormous drum machine. The opening title track holds an atmosphere thick with synths and smoke, as Countess Moth’s deep baritone guides us like a doomed priest.
Omni Tempore (Re-Vamped) kicks the tempo through the crypt door, with Twink of Darkness stepping up for lead vocals uncannily reminiscent of Brian Molko cutting perfectly against the pulsing synths and racing hi-hats. The contrast between Twink and the Countess is a masterstroke. One is stately and solemn, the other eerie and airy, giving the EP a push-pull between grandeur and ghostliness. There’s industrial stomp worthy of Nine Inch Nails on Devotion, while Times Like This reaches an emotional high point with a soaring anthem about love and finally feeling found. At twenty-one minutes, this is Moth Slut’s biggest and boldest work yet, a short but complete vision of their vampiric universe. The dynamic between Countess Moth and Twink of Darkness is the same love story of decadent devotion as Morticia and Gomez Addams, the most passionately committed on-screen couple of all time. Moth Slut tap directly into that energy of darkness, play, and mutual fascination, and the world may not understand them but they understand each other. Beneath all the blood and eyeliner lies something genuinely sweet, if a little freaky. Moth Slut are doing what they do for the night-dwellers and outsiders who need to dance to something over the top, embracing every electrified cliche because the cliches work. In spirit they’re the heirs to Bauhaus, Type O Negative and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, proving that goth never truly dies. With a total lack of restraint, A Coffin Built For Two drips with high drama and decadent excess, reminding you that darkness can be joyous, and being spooky doesn’t mean having to be glum and serious, with bared fangs and full hearts.