Shaking the Foundations by Rough Trade

Shaking the Foundations, the fourth album from Toronto new wavers Rough Trade, arrived in 1982 on True North, produced by Gene Martynec with singer Carole Pope herself. Pope and multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples were the engine, and the record keeps the provocations coming: cool, sleek new wave with a smirk in its eye and a singer who never once asks permission.

It turned into a proper Canadian hit in 1983, sticking around the national chart for 21 weeks and topping the CANCON listing. "Crimes of Passion" was its only regular single and got to 18. Its flip side, "Endless Night", was sparked by the Operation Soap raids of 1981 and became the theme for Track Two (Enough Is Enough), a documentary from 1982. Both "Crimes of Passion" and the title track resurfaced in 1985 on Birds of a Feather, the band's hits set.

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