When is a Goth band, not a Goth band? When they're a proto-Goth band, of course. What with all the current stirring of the post- punk pyre, it was only a matter of time before a group stumbled over the embers of this now barely remembered amorphous sub- genre. Swirling around the scene in their wispy, long black skirts, skull t-shirts, and bone necklaces, bemoaning the death of punk, and entangled in a dreamy nihilism more beholden to Lord Byron than Johnny Rotten, the protos were an eclectic bunch, but melancholic to a man. Siouxsie & the Banshee's desolate drone was the entry point while Joy Division the movement's obvious apotheosis, but before the Sisters of Mercy defined the Goth tag for good in the '80s, myriad bands flitted around this scene. Some like Gene Loves Jezebel, The Psychedelic Furs, and The Cure, soon moved beyond its parameters, others including Bolshoi, Specimen, and The Comsat Angels were lost in its mists forever. The Prids lovingly resurrect this movement in all its gloomy glory, paying tribute to the many musical threads that wove through the genre's shroud. Joy Division and early New Order ripple beneath the surface of a number of songs, The Cures's rich atmospheres wrap around many more, while The Comsat Angel's chiming guitars and sublimely shadowed take on New Romantic bubble up elsewhere...- All Music Guide