Sadly It All Falls Apart But Gladly The Funeral March Of The Marionettes Are Back For One Last Choreography

The Funeral March Of The Marionettes 
It All Falls Apart 
Illinois 
 
The gothic rock band from the heart of the United States of America, Rockford, Illinois, are back with new material for the very last time. Sad news for band fans and gothic culture as a whole, as some of you probably know their singer died of cancer last year. This posthumous release from The Funeral March Of The Marionettes is one last hoorah for the amazing adventure that being in a band always provides. Recorded before he died, no-doubt with his diagnosis in the back of mind at all times, Joe Whiteaker (1968-2024) and his band of dirging darklings put the imagination to use for one last album. It All Falls Apart is the title track and puts the band in the best shade possible, making way for the rest of the album to be enjoyed in one gulp or in little pieces. All proceeds from this record, streams, and sales on Bandcamp go directly to Joe’s widow and two children. So that means listen.  
 
Wailing guitar brings it on as a drum fill rips up the abstraction and pushes down the score. Melodic chiming guitar sounds reverb in time to the graceful and slow-moving rhythm of viscous percussion and distortion. The vocals enter, clean and in tune and decorated with a gothic sense of foreboding, romantic melancholia takes the lead and directs us towards poetry. The guitars continue to soar in epic flights of buttress that expand and elevate the entire composition. A fantastic use of harmony creates a subtle change in the feel of each line as the feedback control deftly takes the tune into various tones of minor key. Goth music doesn’t get much better than this, it’s got The Cure and Joy Division written all over it but if you want The Funeral March Of The Marionettes you’ll have to go to the real thing.  
 
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