Our scene is a fickle mistress, and for as much as goth relishes looking backwards for our sounds – we can be outright harsh and unforgiving when it comes to what we like and what we do not. With close to a twenty-five-year gap between full length album releases, how does a band stack up to the heights of those gothic buttresses they once held up? Where does this leave seminal goth rockers The Wake on their long-awaited return?