I remember listening to this one ages ago (in fact I quickly searched out a review I wrote in 2015 - all I said was that it was a good little pop album with some funky sounds and lighter synth bits). Didn't really remember the music off the top of my head... though I was listening to it during night-shifts back then so that might factor into it.
It remains a good pop album with some funky sounds and lighter synth parts. A fun album, even though it's lead single "(we don't need this) fascist groove thing", championed by John Peel was banned by the BBC for implying that Ronald Reagan was a fascist. Some things never change, the BBC have made some terrible censorship decisions in the past.
The band was formed by ex-members of the original line-up of the Human League (before they went extremely mainstream and had huge success with songs like "don't you want me"). That band had a reshuffle and the members who would form Heaven 17 created the company called the British Electric Foundation (BEF) under which the band was based... that idea of band/album as corporate product is illustrated (quite literally) on the album cover with it's corporate promotional vibe.
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