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The Human League have never been about resting on their laurels or relying on past glories to see them through. Credo is as brilliant a distillation of their ideas about pop and dancing, glamour and electronics, as anything they have ever done. They called it Credo ("belief") for The Human League fans who never stopped believing in the band in the decade since their last album, 2001's critically acclaimed Secrets.
Produced by fellow pop experimentalists I Monster, Credo is part of that particular pop lineage that goes from Bowie, Roxy and Kraftwerk to Donna Summer, Chic and Michael Jackson. Supremely infectious chart pop music with an extra subversive "x" factor. Credo's eleven tracks still bear all the classic League synth pop hallmarks but are as modern as the sharpest 21st century chart pop, including ecstatic album opener and current single "Never Let Me Go".
"We're peculiar," says The Human League. "We don't fit in. People don't quite appreciate how strange we are. There are three of us, two of whom have never written a song and are pretty average singers, plus we've got a lead singer who doesn't consider himself a singer at all and can't play any instruments very well. And yet we still think of ourselves as a pop group, not arty-farty or weird. We shouldn't have gone on this long as we have - we should have `gone rock' by now, like Depeche Mode, Simple Minds and U2 did. But we're still a pop group." Not just a pop group - possibly the last great pop group. Believe.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Never Let Me Go 4:54
2 Night People 5:30
3 Sky 4:54
4 Into the Night 3:43
5 Egomaniac 3:58
6 Single Minded 3:50 v
7 Electric Shock 4:49
8 Get Together 3:48
9 Privilege 3:36
10 Breaking the Chains 4:00
11 When the Stars Start To Shine 3:48
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