KINDEST LINES

Covered in Dust

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Back in the ’80s, bummed-out teens could take solace in at least one thing: their killer record collections. In those days groups like Depeche Mode, New Order and Cocteau Twins created sumptuously gloomy pop, making it more fun to wallow in supposed misery than hang with the popular kids. Kindest Lines revisits the sound of yesterday’s mopey classics here, most notably the Cure’s 1989 Disintegration. While the influences are as easy to spot as Goths at a pep rally, the female-fronted trio does its heroes proud. As long as nice girls lose guys to cheerleaders, tunes like the bittersweet synth-pop epic “Prom Song” will never go out of style.