Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble by Transvision Vamp

Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble, the third and last album from Transvision Vamp, came out on MCA in 1991, two years after Velveteen had taken the London band to No. 1 in Britain. Wendy James sings, Nick Christian Sayer plays guitar, Dave Parsons plays bass and Anthony Doughty handles drums and keyboards, and for the first time James shares the songwriting credits.

The glammy, trashy pop-rock snarl of the hits gives way to something softer and more mellow here, and that turn is exactly why their label balked at putting it out. It surfaced in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, reaching No. 25 on the Australian chart, No. 14 in New Zealand and No. 27 in Sweden, but Britain never got it at the time: before anyone could reconsider, the band had split. "If Looks Could Kill" shows the new, cooler side of the Vamp.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.