Can I suggest some
actual alternatives?
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Gallon Drunk
Tom Waits
Barry Adamson
Neko Case
Jolie Holland
Stereolab
Broadcast
Laika
Low
Throwing Muses
Pale Saints
Mercury Rev
the Raveonettes
School of Seven Bells
the Horrors
Cats Eyes
Calexico
Blonde Redhead