Music For Parties - Silicon Teens (1980)

Ideated from: August albums, since it’s my birth month

Wikipedia is always good for the kind of random list porn that my neurodivergent brain craves. So poring over lists of albums released in August, I admit that I didn’t actually vet what I was putting in my queue.

Silicon Teens was one of several aliases used by Daniel Miller, the owner of Mute Records. Mute was an early adopter in releasing synth pop, industrial, and other underground sounds in the 80s: Depeche Mode, Einsturzende Neubauten, Erasure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, etc.

This was an early release from the label that was mostly synth-pop takes on 50s and 60s hits. It is… I mean, it’s not good. I owe you acknowledging that, dear reader.

Partially interesting because of the mix of UK pop and american early rock and soul, but that’s about as far as I’d go.