possible seconds of each other.
Yet, he also can pull it off live.
“Lambs to the Chapel” also
mixes it up, going from a fright-
ening, blood-curdling final verse
into a hauntingly acoustic con-
clusion. Other standout tracks in-
clude the closing “Starve,” which
features a beautifully expressive
ending that sounds as if Wein-
berger is pleading with some-
one who is holding a gun to his
head.
The single, “The Floorboards
Are Breathing,” mixes the synth-
driven, guitar-echoing alt-dance
vibe of mid- to late-80s The Cure
with Edgar Allan Poe’s sense of
the macabre. The gruesome, ee-
rie tune was inspired by a 2007
HBO documentary about a wife,
who after years of domestic
abuse against her and her son,
snapped and killed her husband
with a hammer.
The equally emotional “Every
Pain In Monochrome” draws
its sad, violent story from Brit-
ish author Virginia Woolfe, who
took her life by filling her pock-
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