I got into Rosetta Stone at school, and played An Eye For The Main Chance to death. It’s a fantastic album. I loved RS, despite the Sisters comparisons.

Unfortunately, this ‘new’ collection is 90% songs lifted from the singer’s later project, Miserylab - albeit re-recorded/remixed. Miserylab’s lyrics were extremely political, and it doesn’t sit at all well being shoved back under the gothic umbrella of Rosetta Stone. Not to say that goth can’t be political - but it would be contained within imagery and suggestion, rather than being shoved in your face. Miserylab was a perfect vehicle in itself for such political content.

To add into the mix here, this guy has been very vocal over the years about what he thinks goth is and isn’t - and putting down goth festivals such as WGW. This angered and alienated a lot of people.

Now, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion - but when you slag off a scene, then resurrect your old band that are the epitome of that scene, with songs that you’ve already recorded and released under another name - it smacks of ‘short of cash’.

To be fair, the singer’s other project, In Death It Ends, is great. Consisting of instrumental, almost filmic soundscapes (with inspired and creative limited runs of vinyl editions), it provided a unique take on dark music.

Unfortunately, this album feels downright cheeky, lazy and immensely hypocritical - and just doesn’t work. Track 9 is entitled ‘What Is The Point’. I think he might be right - and you can’t help feeling that he brought it on himself.