Chasing Shadows by The Comsat Angels

Chasing Shadows, the Comsat Angels' sixth album, came out on Island in 1986, and it was a fresh start for the Sheffield post-punk band. They'd left Jive, and they landed at Island partly thanks to Robert Palmer, who had admitted on television that he was a fan. He got an executive producer credit for his trouble and sings on "You'll Never Know".

The band heard it as a break from Land and 7 Day Weekend, the two slicker records made for Jive. Cut at Rockfield in a loose, informal way, mostly played live with the vocals laid on afterwards, it has air and muscle in place of machine polish, all brooding atmosphere and chiming, heartsick guitars, and frontman Stephen Fellows later agreed it held his best singing. "The Cutting Edge" was the single, and "Lost Continent" reached the countdowns. Edsel reissued it in November 2015, paired with Fire on the Moon, the 1990 album they made as Dream Command.

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