British trio White Lies—guitarist/vocalist Harry McVeigh, bassist Charles Cave and drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown—just released Ritual (Geffen/Fiction), which follows up To Lose My Life…, the band’s commercially successful 2009 debut. The 10-track sophomore LP was co-produced by Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Killers) and was written over a five-week period when White Lies wasn’t crisscrossing the globe in support of its first album. Though McVeigh, Cave and Lawrence-Brown are all barely old enough to drink legally in the U.S., the threesome has been playing together as a band since their mid-teens, first as Fear Of Flying, which released two singles produced by Stephen Street (Smiths, Blur), and then under the White Lies moniker. The trio will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with them.
Lawrence-Brown: I have only had the opportunity to visit this amazing modern-art gallery once, but I am certain that I will be return as regularly as possible. The gallery is located in Beacon, N.Y., a beautiful train ride northbound along the Hudson River from Manhattan. The artwork is housed inside a series of enormous warehouses that were originally part of a box factory constructed in the 1920s, and the size of the gallery lends itself well to works on a similar scale, with permanent installations from artists such as sculptor Richard Serra, who can rarely find galleries big enough to house his work. The collection also includes work by Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, Walter De Maria, Agnes Martin and Louise Bourgeois. And loads more besides them. It also has a very beautiful and peaceful “seasonal” garden (whatever that means). It was beautiful when I visited in summer, anyway. I can’t vouch for the other seasons. Well worth a day trip from Manhattan. For me, it’s a superior experience to visiting the many (very good) galleries in the city.
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