Thursday, June 25, 2026

You take me up (Thompson Twins) (LP 4650)

Thompson Twins  Into the Gap (Vinyl, Arista Records, 1984) ***  

Genre: Pop, Synth pop 

Places I remember: Margy's brother's collection

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Hold Me Now

Gear costume: Doctor! Doctor!

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7

Active compensatory factors: Thompson Twins eventually became a trio (ha!) comprising 
Tom Bailey (vocals, keyboards, guitars), Joe Leeway (keyboards), and New Zealander Alannah Currie (acoustic drums, percussion, marimba, xylophone).

Into the Gap was the sixth album by Thompson Twins of various configurations and it was also their most commercially successful album, thanks to Hold Me Now and other singles off the album.

Despite my distaste for synths and programmed drums, I retain a soft spot for the band thanks to Tom's vocals, Allanah's presence and the cover which has the globe stopped to feature NZ. Nice!

Where do they all belong? That said, one Thompson Twins album is definitely enough.

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