Here’s a little New Romanticism for you, coming from the source: Richard Burgess.
Two years before this album was released, Richard teamed up with Dave Simmons to invent the Simmons SDS-V drum machine (you all know it). This was the first commercially available electronic drum kit.
This is Landscape’s second full-length, titled “From the Tea-rooms of Mars… to the Hell-holes of Uranus,” produced by Richard. This album is most known for its hits: “Einstein A Go-Go” and “Norman Bates.” I stumbled across this, and I just can’t get enough of this track.
After this release, Richard Burgess went on to produce Spandau Ballet’s Journeys to Glory and Diamond, along with countless other albums, including one of my faves: New Edition.
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That pyramid and floor on that cover are pure perfection, if you just focus on those this cover becomes so dark but you’d never feel that way if you just look at it as a whole. I love the synth stabs no one does that anymore
It’s gorgeous! That rolling bass line gives me tingles.
oh~ they are one of my favorite new romantic groups~