40 Years of Goth: Essential Albums from the Genre’s Beginnings

​40 Years of Goth: Essential Albums from the Genre’s Beginnings

11. Sex Gang Children- Song and Legend (Illuminated Records, 1983)

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​The debut from Sex Gang Children is a seminal work the genre’s development, leading some like The Cult’s Ian Astbury to credit singer Andi Sex Gang with actually coining the budding music culture as “goth.” The album’s single “Sebastiane” is a complex work of screeching vocals, percussion, and bass, with a violin line that cuts like a knife. As our own Greg Fasolino would put it, Song and Legend “is a landmark in gothic/post-punk, holding forth with an unequaled baroque fury.”