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Dark Pleasures: Music for the Ruptured Soul
Strange We Should Meet HereStrange We Should Meet Here by Idiot Pilot
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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
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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 The Cooper Temple Clause
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Vastly underrated intelligent British Rock. Delicate hardness. Like a large man forced into a summery dress.
SaturnaliaSaturnalia by The Gutter Twins
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A bruised and bluesy confectionary. It stinks of yesterday's whiskey spittle but tastes like a fine red wine.
PandemoniumPandemonium by Killing Joke
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Neither funny nor likely to actually kill you, but sweaty throaty shiny scary wonderfulness
Body CensusBody Census by :wumpscut:
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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
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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
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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
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Deserve to be discovered - sublime and slightly chewy
Ghosts I-IVGhosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
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pssst - you can download it from his website for free
WeltWelt by OhGr
'Water' great first track - worth the admission price alone
MedazzalandMedazzaland by Duran Duran
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No wait, come back - seriously, this is excellent, dark, electro pop-rock. Trust me...