THE EDITORIAL STAFF'S FAVORITES
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Buck-tick - 狂った太陽 (kurutta Taiyou)
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Héroes Del Silencio - Senderos De Traición
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Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
The top step of the podium goes to the sinister dissonances of Peter Murphy and co.'s debut, the pivot around which the entire early-Eighties English dark-punk scene revolves. Next comes the resigned intensity of Ian Curtis's existential malaise, perfectly set into Joy Division's sophomore album. Closing things out is the mature work of the Cure, with Robert Smith "disintegrating" darkness into a wholly new form of solemn, romantic anguish
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Aya Rl - Aya Rl (czerwona)
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Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria
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Akina Nakamori - 不思議 (fushigi)
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Human Drama - Songs Of Betrayal
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Malice Mizer - Bara No Seidou
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THE EDITORS' FAVOURITE ARTISTS
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl
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Siouxsie And The Banshees
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Public Image Limited
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Héroes Del Silencio
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The Cure
With a full four albums in the top forty, Smith's band gathers the highest number of votes from our staff. Credit goes above all to the autumnal melancholy of "Disintegration" and the hallucinated despair of "Pornography", feelings at opposite ends of an ideal spectrum capable of uniting every shade of the Smith-ian dark universe, which also makes room for "Faith" and "Seventeen Seconds"
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
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CLAUDIO FABRETTI'S FAVOURITES
The Cure - Pornography
Robert Smith's darkest abyss. The record where the Cure frontman reaches the peak of his poetic vein, perfectly backed by bandmates Simon Gallup (bass and keyboards) and Laurence Tolhurst (drums). Together the three craft their most complex and ambitious work, one that could be called the "perfect" dark album. An intimate, moving and desolate work, exuding an almost tangible sense of decay and disintegration
MAURO ROMA'S FAVOURITES
This Ascension - Walk Softly. A Dream Lies Here
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Bleib Modern - Vale Of Tears
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Varsovie - Coups et Blessures
Lycia - Cold
The pinnacle of Lycia's visionary, metaphysical art. A concept album dedicated to winter, inspired by months Mike Van Portfleet spent in the frozen countryside of Ohio. A majestic work of rarefied elegance, enriched by the gothic litanies of singer Tara Vanflower"
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Mephisto Waltz - Insidious
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This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode
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Faith And The Muse - Annwyn
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Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart
THE EDITORS' FAVORITES