The Sisters of Mercy sound is motorcycle guitar meets Bach, and it works. Lead singer and frontman Andrew Eldritch's voice is quintessential Gothic, a la Peter Murphy, carrying all the edginess you'd expect to come with the black-leather, pale-skin look, but soothing in its own right. Lyrically, the songs hit a mark that eludes today's wannabe Goth/Pop tunes. When's the last time anything in the top 40 approached the sharp complexity of "I hear the roar of a big machine/Hot metal and methedrine"? What's more, these lyrics dare to have haunting depth, as the chorus of probably their best-known song, "More," pleas for what we all want: "And I need all the love I can get/And I need all the love that I can't get, too."