Vital Sines - Collage

Initially a straight-up punk band, Vital Sines sensed the shift that was coming in Toronto’s early-eighties alternative scene. Giving in to the moodier, more experimental influences of post punk and new wave, the band wound up producing their massive career-defining single, “Collage,“ which gave the masses a cursory taste of goth: mournful vocals, ethereal guitars and a black-and-white music video full of studded belts and esoteric images. With that, Vital Sines helped sow the seeds of a darker counterculture.