Deception by The Colourfield

Deception, the Colourfield's 1987 album on Chrysalis, turned out to be their last, and it's the sound of a band coming apart in the studio. Terry Hall, the former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman, had formed the group in Manchester in 1984 with fellow Coventry men Toby Lyons and Karl Shale, and this was the year the name closed up into a single word. Shale didn't make it to the end of the sessions.

Richard Gottehrer produced, and the record wears a glossy new wave finish that Hall later soured on: he has said he never got the grip he needed on the hired players and the producers to keep the Colourfield sounding like the Colourfield. Still, "She" carries that deadpan, aching Hall delivery through the polish.

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