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If gothic music lived up to it’s name this is what it would sound like.

Timonium is adept at playing music in which silence and space is as much an instrument as the guitar or drums.

It’s lounge music for the common kid. It’s a jazzy emo-pop.

Easton isn’t doing anything mind-blowing here. He’s just very adept at penning good songs, musically and lyrically.

My first impression of Soviet’s sound was a mixture of Depeche Mode and Devo.

There’s a depth, often dark and mysterious, that flows around the base of each song.

They’re a rock band intent on ripping the entrails out of their Korgs, producing the skronkiest, bleepiest sounds they can — and getting booties to shake and bodies to move across the land.

Mojave 3 has gone for a starker acoustic sound that’s stripped down, sparse, and surprisingly more inviting.

Not a masterpiece, but it shows a band that could be worth keeping an ear on in this decade.

Despite the album’s fairly minimal nature, there’s something vast and alien about these songs.

I’m not comparing Lasso to the greats of country yet, but they have the potential of putting out an album worthy of comparison.

One of the best and darkest trance records you could ever hope to hear.

Flux is a beautiful, dark mixture of industrial electronica.

The most straightforward Havalina release to date, if you can use “straightforward” to describe a Havalina release.

It’s uncanny how Unwed Sailor is able to convey emotion through a simple melody, a brush of a cymbal, a rolling bassline.

Home Is Where It Hurts contains a healthy dose of the band’s intriguing blend of melancholia, autumnal sounds, and pastoral post-rock.

Sleeps with the Fishes is adept at taking what should be morose music and converts it into something resplendent.

These songs are pure filigree, the musical equivalent of rococo art, completely concerned with ornamentation and flourish.

Set yourself the easier task of locating the only good British weirdo album of the “grunge” era.

Although clearly influenced by bands such as Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, he remains a one-man show.