I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Cautionary Tales before. This new single, “Falling”, is unlike the one I reviewed earlier this year. That one was a belter – and so is this one! I love the fact that this band has its distinct audio persona yet can achieve such diversity in their writing, orchestration, arrangements, mixing and mastering.

As ever, I leave the band’s own bio and EPK to give you the who, where, when on the recording, and I focus on the what. The single I am reviewing. Suffice to say the studio work to record, engineer, mix and master is exquisite for this release. The band themselves are consummate professionals, dripping with class and almost swaggering with the level of compelling dark energy they are creating.

Falling is released as a single on 21st July 2023, and you need to go get. The lead vocalist’s rich baritone verges on sinister, giving me visions of some sort of a vampiric gothic rock show, deep beneath the streets of the big city. Darkened clubs populated by the children of the night; pale, hollow cheeked and black haired. This is your music. It’s rock. It’s punk. It’s goth. It’s industrial. No two songs are the same – except dark, cynical, and oh so sweetly nasty.

Remember Cautionary Tales.