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| Unknown Post-Punk #2
Venture with me to the anaals of forgotten, underrated, popularity-lacking or just plain overlooked albums and bands in post-punk, goth, deathrock, new wave, darkwave, coldwave, no wave, synth wave, minimal wave, revivalism, industrial post-punk, shoegaze-mixtures and all that comes with. This was supposed to be my farewell offering as Sputnik's Home Post-Punk Maester before I give the burden of the job to Tyler., but the production got a little too wind (and outside of beating me in post-punk-off, Tyler. didn't do shit to earn the title), as more and more entries started getting added up with the list initially being alphabetical, but now counting almost 1300 entries (this'll be a long ride), so I'll just be releasing them separately, in no order, just by levels of completion. If there is an artist missing, they're either too popular, have too many albums to just pick one and are in either one of the past or one of the future episodes of Don't You Forget Us series, or will most likely be added in the future instalments of this list, but still go ahead and suggest them, even though it's unlikely I didn't already encompass them in the 1300 already existing entries (just to brag a little more about the work I am yet to do). Underneath the descriptions are some tracks off the albums that are either best, most accessible or simply encapsulate the true meaning and atmosphere of the album and the band. And without much further ado, here comes: | | 1 |  | Local Heroes SW9
Drip Dry Zone
Fairly certainly a decent album, but barely one for the ages. It relies a little too much on the clichés of the time, even if it came in the very first wave of those clichés, nowaday they still seem cheap and silly.
Hidden Meaning, Benzene Ballet, Exploitation, Drip Dry Zone | | 2 |  | The Passions
Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
Going somewhat hand-to-hand (read: they shared a bandmember at some point) with Local Heroes SW9. Perhaps it gives off a certain feeling of naivety and simplistic silliness. It heavily relies on its rather one-dimensional poppiness and in the end turns into banal new wave. It is pretty much that year's equivalent of any modern day Bandcamp bedroom pop bands.
I'm in Love with a German Film Star, Strange Affair, Bachelor Girls | | 3 |  | Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Press Color
Why did it take me only until this entry to talk about this kind of direction in the genre. The ladies of Post-Punk always seemed to have stylistic ideals of their own. The more traditionally structured bands have rarely had a female lead, but these more obscure and off-the-wall acts were always masterminded by the dames. All of these Au Pairs, Lucrate Milk or Pylon and also the French performance artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux, whose mix of utterly nonchalant and carefree instrimentation and adorable accent in vocals made her music absolutely unique in its goofy silliness.
Fire, Tumour | | 4 |  | Microdisney
The Clock Comes Down the Stairs
ESSENTIAL!
Shoutout to DoofusWainwright for introducing me to this band.
This band's entire discography fills the post-1984 Echo and the Bunnymen hole in my heart. Equal parts acoustically sweet and symphonically synthetic. What a damn catchy and pleasant album for all ages and for all taste-preferences.
Horse Overboard, Birthday Girl, Humane, Begging Bowl, Goodbye It's 1987, Harmony Time | | 5 |  | The Fatima Mansions
Valhalla Avenue
More of the Microdisney people. I am featuring this band here purely because they have slight new wave tendencies and because Cathal Coughlan is in it, I don't personally think they have much of anything else to do with post-punk. Just so you know. Also, this album's pretty good.
Evil Man, Something Bad, Valhalla Avenue, 1000%, Go Home Bible Mike | | 6 |  | The Burning Skies of Elysium
The Last Revolving Door
ESSENTIAL!
Truth be told, this is not as much essential album, as it is merely quintessential. The ranging vocals filled with desperation, the samey drumlines, pleasing background saxophone and the catchy tunes, as typical an 80s record as it gets.
Alone, For My Eyes, Carousel, Beggarman Thief, Domino, Too Late For Tears | | 7 |  | ERAAS
Initiation
Not gonna lie, at times this sounds like an intro to some mild thriller series. But that sombre mildness is what gives the album its heart. Unlike most other similar outputs, this does not rely on the overly dramatic delivery, instead it delves into more of a progressive songwriting, building its rhythm and gently leading towards a payoff.
The Dream, Guardian/Descent, Old Magic | | 8 |  | Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade
Two creepy ladies make creepy music… actually, the music is trying its hardest to sound cute and sweet… but it also can have a rather opposite effect, working as off-putting and weird. Not denying the cutsiness, but warning you before you go into this.
Deep Water, Who Knows What Love Is? (Reprise), Being Cold | | 9 |  | Rose McDowall
Cut With The Cake Knife
The least post-punk influence there could ever possibly be, ancient synthwave and its derivatives. This is a cutesy, oversugared synth-pop record that contains some tender melodies and vocals that can be borderline annoying, but I cannot say this doesn't have its audience.
Tibet, Sixty Cowboys, On the Sun, Soldier | | 10 |  | undertheskin
undertheskin
It may start off alarmingly with a set of quite typical, redundant electronic beats and sterile progression, but as it goes on you adapt to the darkness and the monotone, monochrome atmosphere and starts really digging it. It doesn't try to wander off too far from its musical roots, but at the very least it knows how to use a cliche to its advantage and write a catchy tune.
Cold, Wrong, Fall, Undone | | 11 |  | Shopping
Why Choose
ESSENTIAL!
Shoutout to butcherboy for introducting me to this band.
It is just so damn nice to find out that those kooky, bass-driven, guitar-cocking snark-punk DIY movements from way back when still do pop up here and there nowadays. Shopping, even though fairly underground, ispossibly the most notable and widely known example. Hippy-yayee.
Wind Up, Straight Lines, Time Wasted, Say It Once, Why Wait, I Have Decided, Knocking, 12345 | | 12 |  | Psychotic Tanks
Security Idiots/Let's Have a Party
A solid two-piece of ancient German new wave-ism with some typical for the time brat-ish attitude. (they also have a full-length album, but I couldn't find it anywhere online)
Security Idiots | | 13 |  | Palais Schaumburg
Palais Schaumburg
The Germans also excelled at Post-Punk and New Wave strangeness, as is evident from Palais Schaumberg, the Berlin native naughties making waves in the 80s and subsequently disappearing off the face of the Earth. Their self-titled debut clearly showcases just how off-kilter the underground scene in German back then was.
Wir bauen eine neue Stadt, Gute Luft, Eine Geschichte, Madonna | | 14 |  | Neon Lies
Neon Lies
Glitchy and robotic is how I'd describe this album. It's interesting that had these exact melodies, progressions and ideas been played on string instruments, it'd probably be a typical run-of-the-mill Post-Punk with a slightly stranger edge to it, put since everything is played on an assembly of synthesisers and amplifiers, it sounds absolutely abstruse.
To Nothing, We lost Confidence in This Town, Sex Without Faces | | 15 |  | Giant Haystacks
We Are Being Observed
ESSENTIAL!
This was a bloody fight to chose which of this band's album to put on the list, but eventually I elected to go with this, because it might be the band's most important release, not as naive as (and more mature than) Blunt Instrument, as well as more cohesive than their EP/singles/demos compilation This Is All There Is. A bloody tape for ages, I tells'ya.
The War At Home, Crucial Gap, Town of Stone, Are We Safe Yet?, People Disappear, Eerie Canal, Keep Your Head Down, A Different Fish, John Ray Leonard, Cancel My Subscription | | 16 |  | Die Doraus Und Die Marinas
Blumen Und Narzissen
It's hard to put your hands on it, but this album has almost a childish charm. This band explores New Wave playfulness together with a simplistic goofiness of old German Pop hits. It's obvious that the band was influenced from both sides. Whether that influence and the kooky, silly album it spawned is any good is open to any one listener's interpretation.
Reisen um die Welt, Alter Maler | | 17 |  | The Slow Readers Club
Cavalcade
ESSENTIAL!
I am not entirely sure about how I feel putting this band here. They are not really Post-Punk in almost any way. At least not intentionally. They didn't try to sound that way, they never promoted themselves that way and I would certainly never call Post-Punk their first genre. But the band has that darkened, dead serious aesthetic with instrumentation that is just a shade lighter and a notch softer to make it a full blown Post-Punk. It's ridiculously close, while stilly staying moderately catchy Pop-Rock simplicity. The melodies are sometimes almost insanely catchy and striking with an almost unique edge that might as well be true to this band only. Album is an insane growing-value and its subtle, yet visceral sweetness gets under your skin like nothing else.
Start Again, I Saw a Ghost, Forever in Your Debt, Plant the Seed, Days Like This Will Break Your Heart, Cavalcade, Fool for Your Philoosophy, Grace of God | | 18 |  | Rip Rig and Panic
God
This album has been recently making mild waves around local revisors of the underground oddites from the past. And rightfully so. It essentially is essential odd-punk fuckery, blasting rhythms and crushing those off-kilter anti-melodies left and right. Bloody lovely, I tell ya!
(Constant Drudgery is Harmful to) Soul, Spirit and Health, Knee Deep in Shit, Need (Desschool You), Those Eskimo Women Speak Frankly, Hey Mr E! A Gran Grin With A Shake of Smile | | 19 |  | Primo
It Could Happen to You
An EP that opens as atribute to Joy Division does a fairly decent job of not remaining a copycat for its entirety. The music is swift and slightly dreamy, but still with that strong feeling of melancholia that is characteristic for the genre. All-in-all, I enjoyed the Lo-Fi and Shoegaze influences and the vocals that sounded like something off of a Screamo album. If the band learns how to put all those influences together more smoothly next time and if the vocals get improved, we might have a wholly unique Post Punk band.
Like Trees, Mistake Bed, King of Somber | | 20 |  | Odonis Odonis
Post Plague
ESSENTIAL! Who managed to push the envelope of oddity with industrial post-punk in 2016? Odonis Odonis. Who created an album of off-kilter song-writing fused with astonishingly visceral and futuristic atmosphere? Odonis Odonis. Who turned cyberpunk into music? Odonis Odonis. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants. Who will tear your balls of with their music? Odonis Odonis.
Fearless, Needs, BLTZ, Game, Vanta Black, Lust | | 21 |  | Drab Majesty
The Demonstration
What is it that makes fresh artists delve into skeletal New Wave? For Drab Majesty it is - seemingly - a chance to express their slightly extravagant, but dark personas, for this album, while certainly atmospherically like a neon lightbulbs in the dark hallway (as the cover suggests), definitely displays a subtly wild flamboyant personality.
Not Just a Name, Too Soon To Tell, Kissing the Ground | | 22 |  | Death of Lovers
Buried Under A World Of Roses
Both Whirr and Nothing are quite prominent Shoegaze bands, but neither have ever stepped inside the Post-Punk pond, although they did seem to have the attributes to do so. It only took for some of their members to unite together into one project to truly explore the depths of Post-Punk. While still maintaining a lot of their usual Shoegaze echoic atmosphere and production, Death of Lovers set it to a dismal and deeply hollowing instrumentation and songwriting. This EP, in spite of its brief runtime, manages to engulf with its chilling music and drag into a wintery world of resentment and sorrow.
Cold Heaven, Buried Under a World of Roses | | 23 |  | Martin Dupont
Just Because
I have always been fascinated with people's ability to just throw off an entire musical compisition or album, just stating that it is "completely 80s"; moreover, their ability to determine something to be corresponding with that description. But Martin Dupont's whiny New Wave effervescence is just so strikingly... 80s. A testament to its time and style of popularity at that period, this record is pretty much one long synths-layered journey into one's overly romatic, but increasingly creepier and creepier imagination.
Just Because, Under Nylon, Brittle Hero, Mouvement, Bent at the Window | | 24 |  | Modern English
After the Snow
This band may have enough records to fit into the Don't You Forget Us series, but they don't have enough good material for me to bother, so let's just all collectively admit that After the Snow is their best and move on. Thank you.
Someone's Calling, Life in the Glad House, I Melt With You | | 25 |  | Modern Delusion
Days of Us
Heard many Croatian Post-Punk bands? Well, here's one, and it carries that juicy old sound of ugliness and muddy distortion. Yum.
Cynical, Tears in Hell, Chain, Day After You Die, Damage | | 26 |  | Party Day
Glasshouse
ESSENTIAL!
First thing's first, rest in peace, Dean Peckett (also of The Second Coming). This might just be another one of those samey, unimaginative records that were spat out in extensive quantities at the time, but it also might be a symbolic and quintessential release. A time capsule of sorts, which documents the epoch's tendencies and trends.
Rabbit Pie, Firehorse, Atoms, Row the Boat Ashore | | 27 |  | Penetration
Moving Targets
ESSENTIAL!
There are Post-Punk influences, there are even Post-Punk tracks and there is a Post-Punk atmosphere. With that said, this is rather a straightforward Punk album. But if there is one thing that connects this album to the others outside of the genre categorisation, it's that it is criminally, unjustly, disgustingly forgotten. This is the kind of catchy, carefree, off-the-hook music Punk was mamde for.
Future Daze, Life's a Gamble, Stone Heroes, Movement, Nostalgia, Free Money, Firing Squad | | 28 |  | This Social Coil
Pictures
Shoutout to teamster for instroducing me to this band.
This Social Coil (and this album in particular) have one flaw, their production. Their ability to construct a track charged with deep atmosphere and memorable musical progression has always been somewhat shattered by their mostly distorted production. But once you manage to get through the layer of rather unintelligible messiness, there's treasure underneath. Such a precedent on this album. Pictures is a harrowing, calming, but also fretting journey with some neat Post-Rock influences (some might even suggest that the influences have overshadowed this album's primary genre). Its production, although rough around the edges, does add a certain weight to the songwriting and therefore makes the album heavier.
Red Water, Coil, Time, Fader | | 29 |  | Vestfalia's Peace
Loneliness
Vestfalia (in english: Westphalia) was a place of peace negotiations regarding the great Thirty Year War, which had decimated Europe in the 17. century. It marked the end of Catholic Church's absolutism and a complete restructuring of major empires involved. Atmosphere back then was tense, but also quite relieving, as the people of all nations have celebrated the end of a devastating mayhem, but still feared of what's to come. Vestfalia's Peace the band encapsulates that atmosphere perfectly with their long-winded, harrowing and sorrowful music that almost seems like it should be a soundtrack. It tests your patience, but it rewards your dedication.
Loneliness, Behind the Court, Before the Storm, The Peasant, The Apple Boughs | | 30 |  | Cadaver Em Transe
Cadaver Em Transe
ESSENTIAL!
Brazilian harshness-enthusiasts really put the 'death' back in deathrock. They are raw, vicious, shouty and dark, but still in tune with their melodic side, providing both exciting playful attitude, but also richly dense and haunting atmosphere of decay and horror.
Mascara, Confinado, Estado De Sitio, Running Like Ghosts, Inverted | | 31 |  | Abecedarians
Eureka
It was a tough call giving this spot away to Abecedarians' first album over their much more acclaimed second (as acclaimed as one can be and still be called "unknown"). But their sophomore offering, Resin, is a tad more typical derivative work, whereas Eureka is absolutely meditative and almost chillingly calm. It is not about deep and dark emotions and their expression, it is about patience and stamina in the face of motionlessness this album conveys. It is quiet, never reaching anywhere near loudness, always staying sophisticated and barely having any words.
Ghosts, Beneeath the City of the Hedonistic Bohemians, I Glide | | 32 |  | Black Future
Eu Sou O Rio
This album is out of tune. This album is ugly. This album is nasty. This album is cocky. This album is unpleasant. And that is the goddamn point.
Sinfonia para um morto, Piada, Bem depois | | 33 |  | The Glove
Blue Sunshine
Calling this Post-Punk isn't exactly accurate. There are elements inside, but they are heavily overshadowed by pretty much everything else. There is no clear indication as to what genre it really is, but it heavily borrows from Psychedelic, Pop, Folk and even some World music. It's an intriguing release to say the least. And one with quite a hard-to-define nature.
Like an Animal, Sex-Eye-Make-Up, This Green City | | 34 |  | Dalis Car
The Waking Hour
Atmospheric, but musically odd and instrumentally glitchy. There is something magical about this album. It all sounds like the most powerful computer from the 80s tried to generate music that sounded least like its made by the strongest computer from the 80s. A pre-set synthesiser beats could basically accomplish what this album has to offer. And that odd amateurishness is also part of its main charm. There is just a great deal of corny likeability to it.
Cornwall Stone, The Judgement is the Mirror | | 35 |  | Saigon (UK)
Reunion
Have you ever been to those dizzying performances, where everybody, both the band and the audience, doesn't seem much spiritually-present? Those shows, where everything seems fatigued and sleepy. It's that. It's exactly like that, dizzying and disorienting.
Gothic Bop, Reunion, Smilebreaker, The Case | | 36 |  | Warehouse
Tesseract
Do not worry, this will be (quite possibly and/or hopefully) the last not-really-Post-Punk entry on this list. Warehouse is a regular old Indie with some Jazz-like songwriting, but the way it all comes together gives off with a certain Post-Punk vibe that is just hard to deny.
Figure in Bronze, Derivative, Omission | | 37 |  | Mangelwurzel
Gary
Right off the bat, this album is fucking wild. And while listening to it, I couldn't quite decide, whether it is wild in a satisfying manner or in an utterly obnoxious one. Either way, this is pretty damn crazy.
Fishy Fry, Odyssey, Baby Pie, My House | | 38 |  | Bright Channel
Bright Channel
Placebo in the world, where Placebo didn't discover the eyeliner… and money. The atmosphere and the conceptual world this album presents are both quite decadent, but accepting of their state. Bright Channel isn't one of those projects that drown in their own self-pity and saddened dread in their musical style, but rather present the full scale sorrow of their being as a fact and something to deal with, not mourn about.
Vehicle, New Observation, Witness, Reckoning, Night Eyes | | 39 |  | L. Voag
The Way Out
Essentially this is essential for all no wave, jazzy fans. It does deteriorate into absolute mess by the end, but it also has a great no wave potency and is oddly pleasant in spite of its obviously odd nature.
Kitchen, The Way Out, Helping the Police With Their Equiries, Beauty Spreads | | 40 |  | The Lords Of The New Church
The Lords Of The New Church
ESSENTIAL! Quite an experience this is. I am not going to pretend like this album breaks new grounds, discovers original ways and invents progressive methods of creating Post-Punk. As a matter of fact, this is quite a standard affair with the entirety of teh album being nothing more than just an already thousand times rehashed colelction of ideas you've probably heard to death. But this album has one major point that makes up for everything else. It is damn fun and insanely catchy. The band doesn't try to be something new and exciting, they just flow in that easy-listening Post-Punk river as freely as one can and with a full confidence, delivering a heck of a memorable and fun album.
New Church, Russian Roulette, Portobello, Apocalypso, Holy War | | 41 |  | DVA Damas
Nightshade
This album is not for everybody. It wasn't for me and chances are it is not for majority of you. What makes this album so strange is its lack of anything resembling a traditional musical structure. Everything is purposefully stiff, dry and monochrome. It's a New Wave and Post-Punk infused Industrial... something. There is no real creative endgame and most likely no satisfaction for the listener. It's not hard to get through, but it is hard to digest.
Highlights? None really, it's one strange experience and pointing out one or two parts of it would be pointless. | | 42 |  | Vain Aims
-You
Vain Aims did not make any buzz whatsoever. Their entire career consists of this two-song EP. But the curiosity of modern collectors and the easy accessibility through internet allowed the likes of Waiting Room Records to compile a mixtape of songs from god forgotten acts like Vain Aims and release it for people's enoyment, so go give it a try.
You, Count | | 43 |  | Jeff and Jane Hudson
Flesh
For all of you who need more robotic, technical and cheesy-futuristic sound in their lives. Flesh is an electrifying album that is so indulgent in its zany electricity that one begins to wonder, whether its silliness and jerkiness was actually intentionally ridiculous (the goofy cover indicates that, nevertheless).
Mystery Chant, Operating Instructions, Los Alamos | | 44 |  | Nürnberg
U nikudy
Derivative to the core, nothing you haven't heard, and yet so charming in its amateurishness and lack of quality production or execution. Especially considering that these enthusiasts are from Belarus. And how many Post-Punk bands from those parts have you heard of?
Patanuć, Los | | 45 |  | A Primary Industry
Ultramarine
ESSENTIAL!
An atmospheric masterpiece with a driving bass and a rather odd jazzy structure. Fairly certainly a challenge in a already challenging world of post-punk and such, but a challenge not in unbearability, instead in a pleasantness and adventurous song-writing.
Body Blow, Beacon Hill, Cicatrice, Watchworld Weal, Rose Madder | | 46 |  | Ash Code
Posthuman
Somewhere between death of toxic overuse of dark eyeliner and suicide of depression comes the angsty, bratty Ash Code. With a fresh také on Goth and Darkwave, this band swiftly embraces the genre's darkest themes, albeit also its most typical and unimaginative. This album is recommended to anyone seeking that juicy dark atmosphere filled with electronics and repressed emotions.
Nite Rite, The Last Stop, Fragments | | 47 |  | Güler
The Salt on Your Face
Vicious, sonically challenging and musically dissonant. There is a creeping, menacing atmosphere to it all the time, but it's hard to point out its exact effects.
Kiss Me, The Ravens, Princess Parade, I Threw It Out | | 48 |  | Ill
We Are Ill
A very recent endeavour, 2018 specifically, but already a fairly impactful listen. This band maybe inadvertently, in trying to sound as goofy and jerky as possible, created a grand homage to the old-school way of making no wave post-punk in all of its melodyless, snarky, purposefully difficult to swallow glamour.
Ill Song, Space Dick, Bears, Hysteria | | 49 |  | The Bellicose Minds
The Creature
Boy oh boy. This is such an oldschool record. It came out in 2016, but had I not looked that up beforehand, I could have sworn that it is a slightly remastered record from the 80s. It's everything I love about the old Post-Punk, but with the difference that it was released so recently. The band has an obvious admiration for the sound and the style and they do it all justice. Great throwback.
The Hordes, Exiled, The Mask, Orwell's Troops, Villains | | 50 |  | Black Eyes
Black Eyes
ESSENTIAL!
Welcome the singel craziest and mind-twisting album on this list. I cannot quite put my finger on it, whether the band carefully constructed their songs to sound as desorienting as possible, or whether they just let their most animalistic, insane sides take charge during the recording and most of it was created improvisationally even. Either way this is a fantastic and goddamn freaky release.
Someone Has His Fingers Broken, A Pack of Wolves, Yes I Confess, Speaking in Tongues, Deformative, Letter to Raoul Peck | | 51 |  | New Today
Suicidal
Quite definitely as typical and unimaginative as one can get, but it has vocal shifts that almost seem as if they tried to break out of that typical, stale Gothic tone. They have a raw torture in them, not just a low tone apathy. It's quite heartbreaking to listne to at times. The accompanying increasingly bleaker and urgent instrumentation helps it in establishing that atmosphere of desperation as well.
Get High, Grin It Bear It, Joy | | 52 |  | LowCityRain
LowCityRain
Combining traditional Post-Punk instrumentation with the waviness of Shoegaze Pop production, that is what LowCityRain do. The results are not bipolar, but instead very well balanced between Post-Punk's gloominess and Pop's dreaminess.
Grey View, I Don't Know Myself, Phantom, Nightshift, Vulnerable Now | | 53 |  | Annex
Después de VI
Perhaps not the most well crafted and produced record out there, but still an intriguing enough addition to the world of underground post-punk and its derivatives. Annex pull directly from the ancient catalogue of deathrock and krautrock and deliver a vicious, blasting, female-fronted haziness.
Blank Minds, Reflection, Spirit Sin, Fear of Silence | | 54 |  | Ciccone Youth
The Whitey Album
This album literally contains a song titled Silence and it is one full minute of absolute silence. This album is not normal. This album is not healthy. This album is not pleasant. This album is not friendly. This album is not likeable. This album is not conventional. This album is not playful. This album is not tuneful. This album is only a pure unfiltered experimental weirdness for the fans of Sonic Youth offspring.
Platoon II, Macbeth, Children of Satan/Third Fig | | 55 |  | Container 47
CRY•O•SPHERE
This is Post-Punk as played by Psych enthusiasts in a primarily Post-Rock business. The album is produced rather dissonantly and with a strong sense of a menace on the horizon, but not an abstract one. It really feels like observing a megalithic creature approaching you from the dark, frozen distance.
Sinfo, Razor End Falling, Until the Beginning of the Last Hope | | 56 |  | Autobahn
The Moral Crossing
Swinging from overly obvious influences to surprisingly fresh and exciting execution that could make even the biggest revivalism-hater shiver with delight, Autobahn manage to create an album that is both all-over-the-place, but also important for the progression of the genre in the modern age.
Obituary, Future, The Moral Crossing, Torment, Execution (Rise), Fallen, Vessel | | 57 |  | Rope Sect
Personae Ingratae
Noisy, rusty, muffled sound is what you can expect from Rope Sect. It's not an inviting album, but that doesn't mean it is hostile. It just sort of hangs in that atmosphere of indifference inbetween, where it doesn't necessarily appear friendly, but since you're around, you might as well try and enjoy it.
Fallen Nation, Pretty Life, Recess | | 58 |  | Actuel
Monuments
Out of the depths of the middle-of-the-road relatively catchy New Wave unknowns vault cometh this little piece that doesn't try to shoot over its own head with ambitions, but just simply presents a solid enough half-hour of fine material.
East to West, Say You Will, Monuments, Until Another Time | | 59 |  | 2:54
2:54
The Thurlow sisters found taht venn space between all the Indie Rock styles, where they could squeeze in the Post-Punk and Shoegaze influences. As a result, this album is quite ethereal and vibrant, displaying magnetic lightness and almost hazy emotional distress, concealed by the bleak music.
Revolving, A Salute, Scarlet, Circuitry, Ride, Creeping | | 60 |  | Doll by Doll
Doll By Doll
ESSENTIAL!
Seriously, if songs like 'Caritas' or 'Up' don't win over your heart, you might as well not have one. Full of mind-twistingly catchy tunes and pop execution that doesn't make your stomach turn, this is for all of you new wave lovers that still need a little of that bass-y post-punk in your lives.
Figure It Out, Caritas, Those in Peril, The Perfect Romance, The Street Love, Up, A Bright Green Field | | 61 |  | Psi Com
Psi Com
ESSENTIAL! Raw and skeletal is what this short album is. Sure, it follows the usual formula of dissonant and angsty Post-Punk, but it flows in those streams so seamlessly and freely that you can't help, but submerge yourself into the sound of disrupt and darkness.
Ho Ka Hey, Human Condition, Winds | | 62 |  | valvulosa
litoralpunk tropicalbeat
A Post-Punk EP produced as a Lo-Fi Surf Pop-Rock. That's a strange idea, isn't it? Well, this Brazillian obscurity of four one to two minutes long tracks actually pulls it off rather nicely. It has an actual beachy, sunny atmosphere, which kind of collapses with the Post-Punk aesthetic, but at least creates a standout, rare, odd sound.
sputnik666, silenciocanibal | | 63 |  | Akira S and As Garotas Que Erraram
Akira S & As Garotas Que Erraram
One of those bands so obscure that it just makes you wonder how does anyone like it. But believe it or not, this is actually incredibly sweet. One can just tune out to this…toilet..music..? Yeah, okay then.
Grito em hora redonda, Quem disse que não havia monstros?, Ana Lógica | | 64 |  | Family Plot
Convictions
This album is really simple, goth rock with female vocals about all sorts of shamanistic, satanic mumbo jumbo. What else?
Stag Party, Swagger, My Mad Friend | | 65 |  | Howard Devoto
Jerky Versions of the Dream
Howard Devoto made quite a mark with Buzzcocks and Magazine. Both bands have their wn striking, abrasive styles that instantly became classics in the Punk circles. Unfortunately, Howard Devoto's solo material never made it all that far. For the most part it is due to his sudden decision to switch to simplistic, hopeful New Wave/Pop sound that was not exactly welcome among the Buzzcocks/Magazine fans. Besides, it is quite obvious that he is not on his most ambitious or even creative with this album and this style. But it is still worth a shot for anyone curious about the solo wanderings of Howard Devoto.
Rainy Season, Way Out of Shape, Taking Over Heaven | | 66 |  | Atlantic A.M.
Hello Stranger
Too many times have we seen Post-Punk aesthetic and songwriting technique applied to other genres, but here we suddenly have the opposite. It is a purely Indie Rock album with some Post-Punk tendencies. Also guitar solos…
Hello Stranger, The Fool | | 67 |  | Lock Howl
Pareidolia
Who knew that a fusion of Post-Punk and Black Metal could turn up so good. Apparently the sorrowful darkness of Post-Punk mixed with rampaging darkness of Black Metal only serve to amplify the effect of one another. They are strangely in sync with each other and work as if it can't even be done any other way.
The Seventh Room, Into the Darkness. Into the Unknown., Graveless, Lost in the Static | | 68 |  | 45 Grave
Sleep In Safety
This album opens with a line "This album was created by men who are successful career field agents in the life insurance business." Logically, what follows is some Halloween-themed spook-fest as if recorded in a mausoleum. On many occasions this resembles more a Heavy Metal album than anything else. It's dark, but in a fun and corny way. It rather mocks the whole Goth scene than actively partakes in it. It's a mindless music to turn your brain off to.
Evil, Surf Bat, School's Out | | 69 |  | Arrotzak
Arrotzak
Shouty, angry and harsher on the ears. That's what you can expect from this Spanish collective. It operates in the rather vague levels of Post-Punk, just as a formality to call themselves that, while actually striving to break out and seize the genres more direct and equipped to handle their face-slapping attitude.
Euskal Herri pozoindua, Arrotzak, La caída | | 70 |  | Vowws
Under the World
This seems to be dream pop entirely played as noise punk. It is possible that this is not the first incarnation of this sound, but this is definitely one of the unique ones that still holds that playful dreamy undertone, while blasting with hellish harshness.
ESSEFF, One Or the Other, Wild Wind, Inside Out, Forget Your Finery, Game | | 71 |  | Rakta
Rakta
ESSENTIAL!
Around these parts this band is described as partially psychedelic. That might very well be true, because their combination of fuzzy production and typically post-punk/krautrock instrumentation does give off a certain psychotropic vibe that simply sounds surreal and head-spinning. So if you're at all into heavy, dissonant, densely dark post-punk, don't shy away.
Run to the Forest/Repetition, Life Comes From Death, Secret, Take Your Time | | 72 |  | The Vivids
999&13
Drooling into the full-out melodic punk-isms, this LA band describes itself as noisy goth pop, which is about the most accurate description there is.
White Girls on Cocaine, Trembling Bells, Equivalence of Form, The World Isn't Always Yours, Just an Illusion | | 73 |  | Rhythm Of Cruelty
Dysphoria
This band follows the dissonant trend of latest revivalist years, oozing their ugly distorted sound through noise filters to make it sound as piercing as possible. It's definitely noisy, although still making great effort to sound cohesive and straightforward. It's a cruelly sounding, yet poignantly structured album.
Nothing's Left, Hollow Eyes | | 74 |  | Dalek I Love You
Dalek I Love You
Dalek I Love You base their name around the primary villains of Doctor Who, the UK science fiction series. And it makes sense to associate this band with space/sci-fi setting. Their sense of some kind of slick futuristic sound as well as their catchy and pleasant songwriting creates an atmosphere of some kind of fashionable cosmic journey. It just makes you want to appear at a space themed 80s discotheque this album was probably played to death at.
Holiday in Disneyland, Health and Happiness, The Mouse That Roared, Lust | | 75 |  | ¡Ack-Ack!
Another Face
Considering just how deep into oblivion this band fell, I expected their music to be a little more off-the-wall, but what I got was a relatively decent and catchy New Wave freshness.
Another Face | | 76 |  | Flesh World
Flesh World
There's ugliness within, there's brutish brood and ghoulish good, it's passionatly apathetic and flagrantly muddy. The band goes out of its way to create an atmosphere of disgust by just lowering their production standards. It's a strangely disjointed and hard to swallow album, but one with some kind of distanced and dismembering gutsiness to it.
Church of Flesh, Reckon and Know, Are We Saved or Are We Damned? | | 77 |  | Lene Lovich
Stateless
Filled with emotional ambiguity and music that reaches into darkness and light-weight ease simultaneously, this is a perfect album for anyone seeking an escapism in pleasantly sounding music with some dense thematic arcs. It is an album that covers itself with a blanket of musical adventure to hide its scars underneath. There is a strange, resentful atmosphere of menace on here, even though the music tries to sound as jolly as it can. It's an unusual album to say the least.
Home, Tonight, Telepathy, Momentary Breakdown | | 78 |  | Contrepoison
Discography 2010-2012
You need to go into this on your own expense. It is actually kind of bad. It is terribly sung, strangely produced with shrieking synthesisers replacing the guitars and it barely has any popping bass, a feature, which has the power to save any Post-Punk record. But it is so strangely off-beat and colourless in absolutely intriguing way. It is No Wave at its most superficial and ill-advised. I just want to sit here and try to decipher it. It's weird. Just see for yourselves.
I Keep on Searching, Poisonous Desires, Every Dream I Have is About You, Nectar of Destiny | | 79 |  | Bodychoke
Cold River Songs
ESSENTIAL!
Countless times on this album the music turns almost to metal, but the noise aesthetic still does prevail and in the end we have a ghastly beast of noise and rattle, but still one that captivates like nothing else. It's a rarity this kind of insanity works. But Bodychoke perfect it. There is just so much to observe on this album, from the piercing instrumetnation, hellish production, surprisingly catchy songwriting, to throat-damaging vocals.
Control, Cold River Song, Victim, White Light Killer | | 80 |  | After the Tides
Witches and Fools
Banal New Wave fun, but not without its own edge and darkness beneath all the glamour.
Witches and Fools, Vargtimmen | | 81 |  | Blitz
Second Empire Justice
ESSENTIAL!
Okay, this one will need a little further explaining. You see, this band was never exactly Post-Punk. They were a typical hoodlum Oi shmucks, but then decided that Post-Punk and New Wave is the way to go, so here we have this record. And strangely enough, this misinformed exercise in accessability is much more suitable to them than the raw radical, but politically confused mumbo jumbo they were prominent in before and after this record. Strange, isn't it?
Flowers and Fire, Underground, Telecommunication, For You, Teletron, Solar, Husk | | 82 |  | The Honeymoon Killers
Les tueurs de la lune de miel
Vaguely structured, outstandingly obnoxious. Heed this album if you need some of that 80s French silliness in your head. It's a skip for me, but might very well be a hit for you.
Decollage, J4, Ariane | | 83 |  | Red Gaze
Red Gaze
Red Gaze's philosophy, when it comes to music, seems to be quite unusual. They combine inherently likeable instrumental finesse with ugly and off-putting vocals to spoil your enjoyment, because that's not the point.
Drawing Lines, Embrace | | 84 |  | Cabine C
Fósforos de Oxford
Fósforos de Oxford is a slow train. You'll be surprised just how much you'll want to sleep after listening to it. But that is not because it is boring, it's more because of the album's aesthetic that almost seems to be designed for that kind of mood.
Pânico e Solidão, Anos, A queda Solar de Usher, Fósforos de Oxford | | 85 |  | Chrisma
Chinese Restaurant
Chinese Restaurant is equal part catchy and vicious. There is a certain beauty underneath the shrieking production, as well as sadness underneath the nice melodies. It is definitely a double-sided album that preys on your expectations.
Lola, C. Rock, Wanderlust, Lycee | | 86 |  | Hi-I
Mind Your Head
Among the magnitude of Dutch Post-Punk acts of the 80s, this is one of the most overlooked. I don't define 'overlooked' by mere 'good-to-lack of reception' ratio, because in this case there was barely anything to look at in the first place. Not that this minialbum (or as normal people call it, an EP) is bad, it's actually pleasing with its slower approach to bass-driven, female-led Post-Punk, but the band didn't even try to follow it with anything. Nothing before, nothing after. Hence the abscence of traction.
Mind Your Head, Illusions | | 87 |  | All Your Sisters
Modern Failures
Darkness engulfs, density encapsulates, dismay takes over, dread crawls under the skin, distress plagues the mind, decay infects the body, death marches down the halls, demonic atmosphere possesses everything around, dreams turn black, disquiet tumbles through the dead of night, dusk never leaves, deterioration begins, discomposure reigns, discomfort dictates and disorientation turns into the usual state of feeling.
Whites, A Perfect Body, Modern Failures, Come Feel | | 88 |  | Holygram
Holygram
No real big surprises here, except for the incredibly delicate approach to atmosphere. The echoic nature of this record as if glows with hidden joy, whereas most other records of this sort tend to head the other way and hide their sorrows. Here, everything is just a shade brighter, even if still monochrome.
Hideaway, Still There, Distant Light | | 89 |  | The Blackouts
History In Reverse
ESSENTIAL!
This album I only caught on my radar a few months back and with each spin I had bigger and bigger eargasm. It's a well-written, midtempo, sonically adventurous, but fairly calm album with an incredibly mature approach, in spite of its youthful style. These Seattle punks display an array of different ways of transmitting frustration and simultaneous indifference into sound. It goes from cocky, to strident, to easy-going, to nonchalant, and all within the boundaries of their own slow, but smug way.
Happy Hunting Ground, It's Clay Again, Exchange of Goods, Probability, Five is 5, The Underpass | | 90 |  | A Projection
Framework
I suppose this is what people hate about revivalism. And I also suppose that this is what drives bands like A Projection to revivalism. Framework doesn't offer anything above already well established styles frontiered by the obvious likes of Joy Division and New Order, but the band itself sets out ot find their own path in the valley of styles they so obviously admire.
Hands, Sensible Ends, Scattered, For Another Day, Hollow Eyes | | 91 |  | B-Movie
The Age of Illusion
It is rare for a cheesy New Wave band with only one album under their belt to reunite years later and start releasing solid or maybe even stronger material. Surprisingly enough, once they came back, the band ditched that whole smooth'n'slick lovely-melodies-marbled Poppy side of Post-Punk. Instead, they focused on a slightly darker and more typical of Post-Punk atmosphere. There's a sense of unease underneath, although well hidden. But most importantly, there's a sense of maturity.
The Age of Illusion, Perfect Storm, Zeitgeist, For the Dreamers, Echoes | | 92 |  | Alcian Blue
Years Too Late
Interesting how barely any of the first entries on this list can be classified as primarily Post-Punk, but I suppose that's what makes them unique; their shared ability to transcend beyond the boundaries of one genre and enclose into themselves the strength of many. Alcain Blue's brand of Post-Rock-ish Dreamgaze as if screams "Lucidity!" It's the ubiquitous soundtrack of your trippiest, but most calming dreams. The citadel of pleasantry and chilling caresses of the night.
A Fading Smile, Years Too Late, Carousel | | 93 |  | Bob (US)
Backward
Hello, the most ungoogleable band! As hard-to-understand and silly as their name is their kooky, off-the-wall music. It's an absolutely odd, but ultimately really fun album. It isn't anything above unusual, but its silliness and wacky nature is sure to leave an impression.
The Things That You Do | | 94 |  | Carambolage
Carambolage
Quirky, kooky, goofy, whatever other word there is to describe this kind of oddity. I can see many, many, many people seeing this as unbearably obnoxious, but it has its own silly charm to it. Think of it as a slightly less excruciationg Bowie's Gnome Song: The Album.
Tu doch nicht so, Je t'aime, Was hat das für einen Sinn, Der Reigen | | 95 |  | Bell Hollow
Foxgloves
Just barely balancing on the verge of turning a fully fledged Indie Pop-Rock, but still staying confidently in the middle. Foxgloves is a fairly relaxed, albeit a downcast project. It explores the colder side of your dreams in a moonbrightened lakes right before the winter's breeze falls.
Eyes Like Planets, The Bottle Tree | | 96 |  | Be Forest
Earthbeat
Many of the bands on this list you might notice to be rather of different genres than Post-Punk, but just like the other such entries, Be Forest borrows heavily from every stylistically similar genre like Shoegaze, which is its primary comfort zone. The salient basslines and the moody atmosphere indicate a certain level of Post-Punk influence, even though only vaguely so. It's still a noteworthy release with a decent foggy vibe and dreamlike ambience.
Totem, Lost Boy, Ghost Dance, Sparkle | | 97 |  | Art Objects
Bagpipe Music
An interesting trend, though not one that gained any grand traction, is the one, where the artists try to make their music really patient and flowing. Art Objects do that too. They don't jump into action with instant gratification melodies and instantly memorable tunes, although this album does have moments ike these. Instead, it mostly waits and impacts the listener on repeated listens with a more-or-less odd and seemingly disorganised songwriting.
Conversion/Who Switches Off the Light, Batpoem, Passengers of Fortune, What Am I Supposed to Do?, The Paperweight Flood | | 98 |  | Lebanon Hanover
Why Not Just Be Solo
Most bands try their hardest to be colourful or at least charismatic enough to justify their monochromic outlook. Lebanon Hanover embrace the monotony and sameness. They breath it and come through with music that sounds almost scary, due to how little emotion it shows. It's a perfectly apathetic oddity that functions on the basis of your readiness to deal with the repetition and skincrawling monotony.
A Very Good Life, I'm a Reject, Bring Your Own Wine, Avalanche | | 99 |  | Belgrado
Siglo XXI
Have you ever felt that strange fatigue from rage? When you are in such a frustrated state that your body shuts down and lets all of the demons around you overtake the mind, but you can't feel teh strength to move, but silently and quietly sit there in utter irritation. Well, this album encapsulates that with a ray of hope shining through, showing that there might be a way out into the positive, but as for right now, everything's bleak.
Palac Kultury, Swiat Jest Nasz, Progress | | 100 |  | Chalk Circle [US]
Reflection
Are you tired of conventional songwriting? Do you just want to listen to some really strange, grounded, instrumental sass that cares a tad too little about its melodic component? Subdued, vicious and visceral, these ladies knew how to bring on some crankiness. It's energetic, but muddy enough to make it sound like they don't actually care. It's ugly, but swift enough to make it charming. It's strange, but done in all the best traditions of Post-Punk.
Reflection, Uneasy Friend, Scrambled, The Slap, Easy Escapes | | 101 |  | Another Dream
Forever in Darkness/Human Life
For anyone out there not really understanding the appeal of darkwave goth-y post-punk from the 80s, this band can explain it in just two short tracks. | |
Papa Universe
06.03.18 | to be updated as we go | Pheromone
06.04.18 | list needs more the names - swimming god thats a good album | Papa Universe
06.04.18 | you might like 60 | Pheromone
06.04.18 | I'll check it dude - nothing better than some late night post punk | Papa Universe
06.04.18 | You know Caramboulage is good, because Cyclotron has it sitting at 3.5… | Sinternet
06.04.18 | since when are strawberry switchblade, black eyes, drab majesty and ciccone youth unknown?
| Papa Universe
06.04.18 | Well, you also claimed that everybody knows Tuxedomoon at one point. Might be helpful to at least sometimes read the list description. They don't necessarily need to have 2 or less votes to be generally underappreciated. | Jots
06.04.18 | have a diamond | bgillesp
06.04.18 | 20, 28, 70, and 89 are lies!!!!! I've heard of them!!
Great list again though, well deserved feature bud (: | butcherboy
06.04.18 | will check after I finish sifting through the first list.. legendary effort, Uni.. | Hawks
06.04.18 | Niceeeee. | SandwichBubble
06.04.18 | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | Dewinged
06.04.18 | Overwhelming list Uni, can't deny you know your trade you madman. Well deserved diamondo. | Papa Universe
06.04.18 | I need a break.
| DoofusWainwright
06.04.18 | A band called Giant Haystacks that Papa deems essential? - I'm on it | Papa Universe
06.04.18 | You do that. | Papa Universe
06.04.18 | anyone with any information regarding this release's online availability, please tell me so:
Airships in the Fog - When I Say I | ArthurTheAnteater
06.05.18 | great list! if you're making another list, add in kino's gruppa krovi or their s/t. | Papa Universe
06.05.18 | Actually, bands whose discographies span over six albums I do a full separate list series of named Don't You Forget Us and I already covered Kino. | ArthurTheAnteater
06.05.18 | oh shit that's great, ill check it out | Papa Universe
06.05.18 | here it is: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=179350 | 50iL
06.13.18 | These lists are gold man, big ups. Downloaded like the 10 most interesting to me off this list, I'll check em for sure. | GhandhiLion
06.13.18 | what about Joy Divison? | sixdegrees
06.13.18 | who | Papa Universe
06.13.18 | The only way Joy Division could possibly qualify for this list is due to your deaf Alzheimered nan not knowing who they are. | C3llarD00r
06.25.18 | again need to bookmark this | MrHarrison
06.25.18 | I'd like to suggest Marquis de Sade | Papa Universe
06.25.18 | Harrison: know em, like em, will be on the next list
C3llar: cheers. | Deathconscious
03.26.20 | https://primocr.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-hides-under-the-sun
new Primo, bitch. | TabulaRasa6
03.26.20 | I have a newer artist I'd like to recommend, but I'm not sure if this list is only for older post-punk artists that are unknown or if newer unknown ones can make it too.
Either way, I'm going to be checking out all of this. |
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