So you're searching for new post-punk releases on the interwebs. You find a blog that recommends an album called 'Utopia'. It looks interesting, I mean - the cover is an optical illusion!
The drums on this track are Factory Records through and through. As if The Names decided to channel more anger into their music. The bass throbs and the guitar(s) glisten. The most comfortably, isolating sound for any upcoming iconoclast, I recommend this album. It's catnip for miserablists.

A woozy combination of synth-pop and shoegaze with a touch of 4AD's aesthetic .

As much Cocteau Twins as My Bloody Valentine without sounding derivative, mainly thanks to the superb songwriting and attention to detail. Their track 'Evan Evan' ebbs and flows, like a beating heart floating down a stream on a Sunday afternoon.

Pastoral, dejected and melancholy are apt descriptors for this fittingly moody album. The album itself is a narcotic shade of grey; music that washes away the tears from your ducts because you forgot to cry.

Monotone vox combined with trance inducing lead guitar. Masters of atmosphere, Nite Fields will not disappoint fans of 80s alternative music, especially the darker kind.