The Wrong People by Furniture

The Wrong People, Furniture's second album, came out on Stiff Records on 10 November 1986, the year the British new wave band finally caught a break and then watched it slip away. Stiff had signed them that year, and "Brilliant Mind", their first single for the label, climbed to number 21 in Britain in the spring. Mick Glossop produced the album around the band's steadiest lineup: Jim Irvin singing, Tim Whelan on vocals and a handful of instruments, Sally Still on bass, Maya Gilder on keyboards and Hamilton Lee on drums, trading in moody, slow-burning songs with hooks that sneak up on you.

Then the bad luck kicked in. Stiff was in financial trouble, so the follow-up single "Love Your Shoes" got plenty of radio play but never charted, because there weren't enough copies to buy. The album went out on LP and cassette in the UK, France and Belgium; 30,000 copies were pressed before Stiff went into liquidation and was sold to ZTT.

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