Perverse by Jesus Jones

Perverse, the third Jesus Jones album, arrived in 1993 with the band still riding high on Doubt, and Mike Edwards decided to swerve. Where the earlier records were bright and bouncy, this one is darker and heavier, bolting rave and techno onto pop song shapes and pumping in a load of industrial clatter, with Edwards writing lyrics about the future while on the road in 1991 and sketching songs on a Roland W-30 sampler. Warne Livesey produced.

The real story is how they made it: the Bradford-on-Avon band recorded the whole thing onto floppy disks at Edwards' house, and Trouser Press later singled it out as the first album cut entirely on computer, vocals aside. People laughed at the time; the technique caught on later. It went to number 6 in the UK and gave them three top 40 singles, "The Devil You Know", which topped the Modern Rock Tracks chart, "The Right Decision" and "Zeroes and Ones". Reviews were split back then, but the reputation has only climbed since, and a deluxe edition followed in November 2014.

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