With hooks galore and a post-punk edginess, the band's aggressive sound proves uber-catchy.

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Fans of 1970s post-punk band The Durutti Column have rallied round to help frontman Vini Reilly after three strokes left him unable to pay bills.

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For a man who can pump out such blistering, no-nonsense post-punk hard rock, the air of the more mannered art-school rocker hangs thickly around Jack White.

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Hailed in the 1980s as Canada's answer to Paul Westerberg, Soria performed with his post-punk band The Nils, which drew comparisons to Husker Du and The Replacements.

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From the beginning, they mixed experimental noise rock with New York s post-punk, avant-garde aesthetic and came to create a new sound one that redefined what rock guitars could do, with dissonant feedback and alternate tunings.

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Its dystopian sensibility, international range of sounds, and smart, chic nod to the some of most respected innovators of '80s new wave and post-punk music results in a memorably stirring entry into the budding genre of indie-rock world music.

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Without indulging in any substantial degree of sonic nostalgia the production is, above all else, thoroughly up to date the band digs deep to isolate the sense of dislocation and tension that practically defined the post-punk era.

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Post-punk also factors into the mix.

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On its first two albums, Sweden's Shout Out Louds followed a similar formula by updating the dour post-punk of bands like The Cure and Joy Division with ragged guitar riffs, clean production and girl-boy vocal harmonies from singers Bebban Stenborg and Adam Olenius.

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