Black Market Music

Black Market Music was to a strong degree where the vices Placebo more than obliquely celebrated caught up with them, with Brian Molko noting the impact of drugs and more on the recording of what he’s since termed his least favorite studio effort. But the album itself has a lot to offer, with the band gently dabbling in more electronic-leaning arrangements — unsurprising given their Depeche Mode fandom — and coming up with both many stellar singles like “Slave To The Wage” and “Special K” as well as moodier deep cuts like the closing “Peeping Tom.”