The Sound

Adored in the Netherlands but largely ignored at home, the Sound remain one of post-punk's great overlooked bands. Adrian Borland's anguished, soaring vocals and urgent guitar drove songs about despair and defiance.

Jeopardy was taut and nervy, and From the Lions Mouth brought glossier production and anthemic choruses on 'Winning' and 'Sense of Purpose', yet the hits never came, and the sparser, stranger All Fall Down cost them their major-label deal.

Heads and Hearts and Thunder Up followed on smaller labels before the band split in 1988, and Borland died in 1999.