Teenage Hangups Are Hard To Beat

Desperate Journalist “Fault”

“Fault” plays a classic post-punk/goth trick of aiming for absolutely epic melodrama but undercutting any of the preciousness that might go with that with blunt instrumentation that signals brute force and a total absence of sentimentality. Jo Bevan’s vocal here sounds quite a bit like Siouxsie Sioux and that totally works for the song, as she successfully channels her fierceness as well as her potent undercurrents of anxiety and dread. The lyrics are basically about living in a horrible apartment situation that offers shelter but no comforts of home but it’s mostly a jump-off for more philosophical musings about whether or not your problems are the result of passivity or actively making bad decisions.

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