Great lost musical geniuses of our time... no. 1

Ultra Vivid Scene
were in fact just Kurt Ralske, making music all by himself in his bedroom. Dreamy, camp, a bit twisted, a bit SM, highly personal, (he sings like he's whispering to himself) sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes surprisingly dark, often with a sting in the tail... (ex. The Whore of God 'You said your last john was peculiar, he moved in a mysterious way...') Not afraid to take on big themes like Sex, Death, Religion, Redemption in a 3 minute pop tune. He also did a song called the Mercy Seat, which I prefer to Nick Cave's. Best and most heartbreaking of all is Bloodline, where he conjures perfectly that period of being so stunned after a breakup that it doesn't seem to have hit him yet and you feel his loss more than he does. He was on 4AD and I believe that the cover of his first album was a dayglo toothbrush, created by the great Vaughan Oliver. Bought it, lost it when our flat was burgled (really, the most stupid burglars in the world - what value a bag full of home-taped C90s on the black market?) found it again in a junk shop, lost again when moving house... But surely it will be available somwhere on the internets again... I implore you to seek it out... (you can sample a little bit here)