World of Skin – “Ten Songs for Another World”

this still stands – in my opinion at least – as one of the best Gira/Jarboe collaborations ever set to tape. drawing a distinction between the brit-spawned “batcave” style (as often featured on the excellent Phoenix Hairpins blog) and the later American “melodrama” style of goth that went so horribly wrong in the 90s; this is a rare example of the latter done in all the right ways.

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