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2013 album from Steve Strange and his New Romantic friends, their first studio album in 29 years. Hearts & Knives is not only a paraphrased lyric from the lead single `Shameless Fashion', but also a metaphor for the past 29 years of Steve Strange and Visage. Life is always mixture of trials, highs and lows. The sound of Hearts & Knives is classic Visage, with the odd tip of the hat to modern production values. Most '80s groups reforming and making albums shy away from using the classic analogue hardware synthesizers. They remember how much work it was, and it's all plug ins and software these days. Not Visage. All synthesizers on the album (aside from one bassline) are analogue. The production by John Bryan and analogue synthesizer collector Sare Havlicek is firmly rooted in the '80s. Hearts and Knives lightens up the music side a bit, while keeping the lyrics on the mature side. This album is everything I'd hoped it would be, and then some. It is the perfect cross between their first two albums, with a style that sounds like early '80s Visage yet isn't dated and still sounds fresh.
Condition:NEW. Marked upc
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
Never Enough
Shameless Fashion
She's Electric (Coming Around)
Hidden Sign
On We Go
Dreamer I Know
Lost In Static
I Am Watching
Diaries Of A Madman
Breathe Life
Shameless Fashion (Extended Version)
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