Visage - Visage (GER 1980) [Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1] Polydor 2391 494

Visage - Visage (1980) [Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1]
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Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1 / GER 1980 / Polydor 2391 494

Visage is the eponymous debut album from the British pop group Visage, recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in Reading and released by Polydor Records on 10 November 1980. The album reached #13 in the UK and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in March 1981.

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Visage - Visage

Label: Polydor
Catalog#: 2391 494
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, New Romantic

Tracklist:

A1 Visage
A2 Blocks On Blocks
A3 The Dancer
A4 Tar
A5 Fade To Grey

B1 Malpaso Man
B2 Mind Of A Toy
B3 Moon Over Moscow
B4 Visa-Age
B5 The Steps

Notes:

This album comes with a printed inner sleeve.
Recorded at Genetic Sound, Reading, England.
Mixed at Mayfair Sound, London, England.
LC 0309
GEMA

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Visage-Visage/release/446306
Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visage_%28album%29

With apologies to Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, and even Duran Duran, this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated new romantic movement. That's fitting, because Visage's frontman, Steve Strange, was the colorfully painted face of the movement, just as this album was its sound. Warming up Kraftwerk's icy Teutonic electronics with a Bowie-esque flair for fashion, Strange and the new romantics created a clubland oasis far removed from the drabness of England's early-'80s reality – and the brutality of the punk response to it. And no one conjured up that Eurodisco fantasyland better than Visage, whose "Fade to Grey" became the anthem of the outlandishly decked-out Blitz Kids congregated at Strange's club nights. With its evocative French female vocals, distant sirens and pulsing layers of synthesizers, "Fade to Grey" is genuinely haunting, the definite high point for Visage and their followers. But the band's self-titled debut is a consistently fine creation, alternating between tunes that share the eerie ambience of "Fade to Grey" ("Mind of a Toy," "Blocks on Blocks") and others that show off a more muscular brand of dance-rock (the title track, filled with thundering electronic tom-tom fills, and the sax-packed instrumental "The Dancer"). Strange and drummer/nightclub partner Rusty Egan had wisely surrounded themselves with top-level talent, primarily drawn from the bands Ultravox and Magazine, and the excellent playing of contributors like guitarists Midge Ure and John McGeoch, bassist Barry Adamson, synthesist Dave Formula, and, especially, electric violinist Billy Currie, all of whom give the album a depth unmatched by most contemporaneous techno-pop. And despite the group's frequently dramatic pose, Strange and his bandmates were hardly humorless; the first single, "Tar," is a witty anti-smoking advertisement, while the Eastwood homage "Malpaso Man" adds some incongruous cowboy twang to the dance beats. Only the closing track, the instrumental "The Steps," is inconsequential – the rest of Visage proves the new romantics left a legacy that transcends their costumes and makeup. 4,5/5 allmusicguide

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