There’s a lot of amazing music that comes to mind when listening through the second outing from NYC’s The Ritualists but none of it actually lives up to what Baroque & Bleeding actually brings to the party. Sure, there’ll be comparisons to Franz Ferdinand or to Pulp and White Lies (Both of whom have been produced by B&B producer Ed Buller) and even to any number of bands emerging from the mid-’00’s Brit Rawk revival but what Christian Dryden and The Ritualists collective has conjured up together on their sophomore record is the sort of aural originality that comes once in a lifetime.

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