I think what gets them categorized as Goth is a lot of their early work, which is considered to be “dark wave” (darkwave on wikipedia), which has a range of influences from medieval, neo-folk and goth at its most stereotypical terms. a lot of the kind of work I’ve sampled here definitely falls into a more world category. at the same time, even when they started to sound more worldly, there’s no denying that the darker aspects of their music remained. this isn’t cheery, upbeat or anything of the sort — it’s still very heavy and dark, and I think that lingering influence from their beginnings is an important backbone.

We’ve been lucky enough to see DCD twice here in LA, and Lisa has a beautiful voice. And when performing with DCD, she wears white, not black.