To the untrained eye, it may seem like an oversight to release an album as dark as the debut from The Sick Man Of Europe a day before the summer solstice. Fear not – once we’re through tomorrow, we’ll be hurtling headlong towards the darkness. It’s time to get prepared.

“It channels 1980s Belgian coldwave and goth-leaning UK new wave, as well as something else that’s much more vital and harder to pin down – that’s probably the sound of now” Electronic Sound

“The Sick Man Of Europe blend Krautrock aspects with the charred remains of post-punk, tying this together by tapping into the UK’s current dystopian darkness” Clash