Playing with a Different Sex by The Au Pairs.

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Feb 27, 2019 Sold Date

Apr 13, 2017 Start Date

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Playing with a Different Sex by The Au Pairs.

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Tracks:
We're So Cool
Love Song
Set-Up
Repetition
Headache (For Michelle)
Come Again
Armagh
Unfinished Business
Dear John
It's Obvious

Performer Notes:

Opening with the tongue-in-cheek "We're So Cool," the Au Pairs' debut record is a stunner, from Lesley Woods' scratchy guitar and declamatory vocals to lead guitarist Paul Foad's brittle soloing. This is an uncompromising, defiant record: gender roles are turned upside down, as are theories about sex and sexuality, and hetero- and homosexual relationships are put under a microscope. Similarly, the tense political situation in Northern Ireland is harrowingly addressed in "Armagh," which details Tory-sanctioned torture and sexual abuse of wrongly imprisoned Irish women. An unflinching look at the world, Playing with a Different Sex is one of the great, and perhaps forgotten, post-punk records. ~ John Dougan

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Release Date: 8 January, 2016

Label: Sanctuary (USA)

Performer Notes:

Opening with the tongue-in-cheek "We're So Cool," the Au Pairs' debut record is a stunner, from Lesley Woods' scratchy guitar and declamatory vocals to lead guitarist Paul Foad's brittle soloing. This is an uncompromising, defiant record: gender roles are turned upside down, as are theories about sex and sexuality, and hetero- and homosexual relationships are put under a microscope. Similarly, the tense political situation in Northern Ireland is harrowingly addressed in "Armagh," which details Tory-sanctioned torture and sexual abuse of wrongly imprisoned Irish women. An unflinching look at the world, Playing with a Different Sex is one of the great, and perhaps forgotten, post-punk records. ~ John Dougan

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