The Unclean

In the realm of gothic music, there is a fine line between the artists who create beauty and the artists who create pretention. Black Tape for a Blue Girl treads this line carefully and emerges as one of the most emotionally sincere bands of the genre. With lyrics reading like an aural diary pressed to one’s ear, Sam Rosenthal opens up the human soul and bares its bones to the world. Started in 1986 during a move to California, Black Tape for a Blue Girl was formed as a way for the artist to bring out what had been held internally, and turn it into art. Since then, that music has grown into a full-fledged band, whose members revolve around Rosenthal’s subtle electronic foundation, in which their instruments bathe. Strings drift in and out of waves of sound on one song, the faint strummings of guitar are barely audible in another. Voices and flutes turn into an ocean themselves, drifting across musical landscapes that read like a silent movie. Bringing his lyrics to life are a slew of voices which churn the words into genuine emotion, doing everything from floating them on ethereal spirits, to stinging them with furious growls. (official site)

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