Non-single Memories Fade bucks the weedy trend with great keyboard work, a bassline you can hear and feel, and drums that fail to dominate. The Human League and Soft Cell featured booming backing and bottom ends that covered off funky, robotic and everything in between, so how come both TFF’s bass and guitar faders seemed to get a downward nudge every time they left the control room? Could it be that producer Chris Hughes (ex-drummer with Adam and The Ants, aka Merrick) preferred to edge up the beats instead? Are they not plugged in properly? Why so thin? And the bass? Plodding, ponderous and often not-even-there-at-all.

That’s why our pick from their debut album is Memories Fade -the one track that flawlessly dodges all the angsty naivety that’s dripping all over the rest of the album. Title track The Hurting, Mad World, Pale Shelter, Change, Suffer The Children and Start of the Breakdown - all are brilliant. It’s home to a slew of modern classics that we implore you to revisit.

Odds are you’re familiar with TFF’s 1983 number one smash hit debut album The Hurting.

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