“On Vancouver band Mode Moderne's first record, 2009’s Ghosts Emerging, vocalist Philip Intile channeled Ian Curtis’ voice and mood on tracks like “Les Neuf Soeurs” as he sang, fittingly, “I cannot live that way/ I’d rather die.” On others, his band trafficked in the shoegaze and dreampop melodies of East Coast peers like Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing. They continue to split the difference on thei”
