Pink Turns Blue are a German band who have been around since the mid 1980s. After a bit of experimentation on their early albums, they have settled on a style and sound that places them firmly in the centre of what I think of as Post-Punk. If you took Joy Division's two studio albums and The Cure's Pornography, then added a bit more Punk Rock aggression to the sound, you'd have something similar to Pink Turns Blue. Their music is characterised by big dancefloor beats, strong bass lines and edgy, upfront guitars, with the occasional wash of synthesiser to fill out the gaps. Mic Jogwer's vocals suit the music perfectly, straddling the space between Punk's attitude and the melancholy of Gothic Rock.To me, PTB's albums fall into three periods. After their debut, they went off on a slightly Darkwave bent, with more atmospheric songs, featuring more synths and textured guitars. Then, in the early 1990s, apparently under the influence of the resurgence of Brit Rock, they released a couple of more rock'n'roll albums. After a ten year break, they returned with a sound much closer to their first album and, since that time, they have stuck with it, refining and exploring it on subsequent albums.Sonic Dust is the band's fifth album, released in 1992, and the first of what I consider their middle phase. It is a return to a more rock-oriented sound and is all the better for it. They use a lot of acoustic guitar on this album, which reminds me at times of The Psychedelic Furs, without ever actually sounding like them. The band said that around this tie their were heavily influenced by the revival of Brit Rock in the UK and that definitely comes through here. Overall, it's not a bad album, although it's sound is not really a good gauge of what PTB are. It's worth having, though.