White Lies are an English alternative rock band, formed in October 2007. The band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums).
Γheir debut album To Lose My Life... was released in January 2009, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Their second album Ritual was recorded in 2010, and was released on 17 January 2011.
White Lies' musical style has been described as dark yet uplifting by the media, drawing comparisons to Joy Division, Editors and Interpol as well as Arcade Fire,The Killers, Echo & the Bunnymen,Tears for Fears and The Teardrop Explodes.
McVeigh's singing voice has been compared to that of Ian Curtis and Julian Cope.
When asked about the comparisons in an interview, McVeigh stated that "We weren't alive during that period of music...we've never really been that into Joy Division, especially not the Editors...or even Interpol really", adding "I don't think our music sounds a whole lot like those comparisons, I think we're a lot more euphoric and uplifting".
In 2009 they won the MOJO Breakthrough Award and Best New Band award by Q Magazine.
"Bigger Than Us" was released as the lead single on 3 January 2011 in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number 42.
The video of the song is a homage to Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T.
The video recreates elements of E.T.'s apparent death whilst he is quarantined alongside Elliott. The character of E.T. is played by a large "Bigger Than Us" candy bar which contains a young girl...
There are other intertextual references to the film featured in the video, the basketballs circling the band at 2:56, the bright red light within the bass drum at 3:08 and the images of the woods where the original film sees E.T. return home.
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