They're a decent band, I agree. That album is pretty important in the grand scope of post-punk, but it's just not all that great in my opinion. It's not so much the vocals as it is the whole dreary depressing gimmick starts to get old pretty quickly, and the two first songs are the best on the entire record so I tend to stop listening after that.
If you want some good ass post-punk I'll throw in a rec for Television's Marquee Moon. Everyone kept telling me how great it was and I finally got around to it a week or so ago, and it totally rocked my socks off.
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