Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side 1941-2025 is a double vinyl LP curated and annotated by Cathi Unsworth, author of Season Of The Witch: The Book of Goth, who cites Siouxsie Sioux, Lydia Lunch, and Diamanda Galas as her formative role models.
In Unsworth's words: "The music gathered here is an aural manifestation of turbulent times, made by women possessed of supernatural abilities. It emerged from the dark end of the 1970s, when intractable industrial action left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish in the streets. All the promise of punk came to a brutal end with the deaths of Sid and Nancy; IRA bombs exploded in central London and a seemingly uncatchable ripper roamed West Yorkshire. Ill omens that augured badly for the events of 3 May 1979, when Margaret Thatcher became our first woman prime minister. But at night, malcontent youth were united by dissenting voices aired across the land on John Peel's Radio 1 show, set to slasher guitars, swirling fairground keyboards, loping basslines, and percussion recalling jackhammers or marching insect feet. Punk's unruly offspring distilled the dissonance of the times into a new kind of music, flirting with the fetishist and taboo, drawing on horror and science fiction imagery. Dressed in black, these kohl-eyed women voiced the alienation of their generation through the Cold War, the Miners' Strike, privatisation, and AIDS."
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Limited to 5 individually numbered copies.
