Listmania!
Dark Pleasures: Music for the Ruptured Soul
Strange We Should Meet HereStrange We Should Meet Here by Idiot Pilot
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.46
the pefect balance of dark and light. A beam of sunlight shining through the dirty window of a slaughter-house.
An Ocean Between UsAn Ocean Between Us by As I Lay Dying
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.99
Punishing and beautiful like a solitary buttercup stuck to the tracks of a Russian T-90 Battle Tank
Kick Up The Fire and Let The Flames Break LooseKick Up The Fire and Let The Flames Break Loose by Cooper Temple Clause
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.88
Vastly underrated intelligent British Rock. Delicate hardness. Like a large man forced into a summery dress.
SaturnaliaSaturnalia by Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan & Greg Dulli)
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.84
A bruised and bluesy confectionary. It stinks of yesterday's whiskey spittle but tastes like a fine red wine.
PandemoniumPandemonium by Killing Joke
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £5.64
Neither funny nor likely to actually kill you, but sweaty throaty shiny scary wonderfulness
Body Census [Us Import]Body Census [Us Import] by Wumpscut
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £6.05
Cuckoo! Only Germans can do this. The soundtrack to a film about a man, a Casio keyboard and his madness...
Dos Dedos Mis AmigosDos Dedos Mis Amigos by Pop Will Eat Itself
Buy used from: £12.00
Had they not split up after this they would have been massive. This is when they became a British NIN
Valhalla avenue (18 tracks)Valhalla avenue (18 tracks) by Fatima Mansions
The sound of a haemorrhoidal rhino falling out of a tree. But you can dance to it
Up Off the FloorUp Off the Floor by God Lives Underwater
Buy used from: £8.29
Deserve to be discovered - sublime and slightly chewy
Ghosts I-IVGhosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.95
pssst - you can download it from his website for free
WeltWelt by Ohgr
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £3.45
'Water' great first track - worth the admission price alone
MedazzalandMedazzaland by Duran Duran
Buy new: £32.12 / Used from: £3.10
No wait, come back - seriously, this is excellent, dark, electro pop-rock. Trust me...