To Lose My Life…

Rock · 2009 · 12 tracks · 54m

To Lose My Life…

Driving post-punk energy met with soaring, cinematic choruses. Dark, baritone-led rock that feels like a high-speed drive through a neon-lit city at night.

It's like Joy Division went to the stadium and decided to make death sound like a celebration.

A high-stakes, cinematic exploration of mortality that feels both claustrophobic and infinitely vast.

To Lose My Life… · vs · White Lies

Death Mortality+2.3σ

The writing leans far further into death mortality than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 54m

01

Death

5:01

02

To Lose My Life

3:11

03

A Place to Hide

5:02

04

Fifty on Our Foreheads

4:22

05

Unfinished Business

4:19

06

E.S.T.

5:04

07

From the Stars

4:53

08

Farewell to the Fairground

4:19

09

Nothing to Give

4:13

10

The Price of Love

4:39

11

Death (Crystal Castles remix)

4:45

12

Farewell to the Fairground (Yuksek remix)

4:21

Moments Worth Waiting For

The explosive transition from the sparse, rhythmic verse to the towering, multi-tracked chorus of the title track.

The driving, motorik bassline of Death that builds into a wash of shoegaze-adjacent guitar noise.

The haunting, piano-led opening of From the Stars that slowly integrates a massive, cinematic drum beat.

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