My favourite part from the blurb about this one in the book is where it said that the band ended up breaking up when, after a bad review, vocalist Marc Almond marched into the office of the critic and set upon him with a bullwhip. It just screams the kind of twisted sass that you'd associate with a band who made a career out of singing about the seedy sex-market underbelly of the UK.
It's an interesting album with a very 80s vibe. The band are a duo with one of them on vocals and the other creating the music, largely just using a drum machine and synthesisers. There are hints of sleazy jazz moods. As far as the lyrical sleaze, it feels almost a tad naive in places; like a virgin trying to bluff everyone that he has totally got laid a bunch of times (no matter what that flasher jacket and sleazy porn-star mo might suggest).
The track most people will know from this one is "Tainted Love".
Really looking forward to the next little run of albums. There are a few artists that I've been meaning to check out and just have never got around to.
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