Death metal, reggae, rock blues pop. 'Tis the season to indulge our sickness. The only other new genre name I was forced to invent came when I was typing in the song titles for the Stockholm Monsters' All At Once: Singles 1981-1987. These would have fallen pretty nicely to the"I don't care about your art-school distinctions, it's indie and that's what I'm gonna call it" rule cited above, only it's the Stockholm Monsters, one of my favorite bands ever and truly in a class by themselves. Excuse me, did I say "by themselves"? Not quite. They were on Factory Records, a label which infused every act on its label with its own aesthetic (sometimes to the dismay of the bands, which bands can get stuffed, because label-specific aesthetics are rare vintage Amontillado for helpless category-sniffers like us) and which called Manchester, England its home. Wherefore the Stockholm Monsters got the same category New Order got, which Ludus will also get, and probably a half-dozen other bands represented by the twice-blessed LTM reissues series, even though several of these bands may only ever have seen Manchester whilst signing contracts through a cocaine-and-champagne haze. That category is "manky," which sounds somewhat like "manic," which is rather my state at the moment, as you have probably noted by now.