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Album Review

Pop fans a bit put off by the Human League's dispassionate vocals on their breakout hit "Don't You Want Me" would have been shocked by the degree of emotionlessness heard two years earlier on the band's 1979 debut. The trio of Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, and Philip Oakey all handled vocals and synthesizers to create a set of grim, rigid tracks that revealed a greater lack of humanity than even Kraftwerk. It's a surprise that the Human League hit the British charts at all (with the single "Empire State Human"), since this could well be the most detached synth pop record ever released.

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Groovy

Groovy.

Dark Electro Pioneers from Sheffield

This is truly the first dark electro club record ever released. Doing this kind of sound in 78 and 79 was just amazing. They were so ahead of DAF, Front 242, Die Krupps,... well, just 3 or 4 years when it comes to this kind of sound. This is not The Human League most of the planet knows. Their sound on this is dark, cold and pulsing. They might have tried to sound POP, but it simply didn't work out. That's exactly what makes this record one of the best early electro-industrial records ever. Dark Beats at its best, despite the fact that they didn't use a drum machine at all on this record. Brilliant!

Emotionless, disspasionate vocales? Of couse.

The reviewer fails to see the vocals mirroring the synthetic sound of Human League's music. The vocals and synthesized sounds are both dispassionate, dark, and meant for an underground club of fairly lost and unhappy people not sure where their life is going and if success means conforming or going their own way. As it should be.

Biography

Formed: 1977 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Genre: Pop

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Synth pop's first international superstars, the Human League were among the earliest and most innovative bands to break into the pop mainstream on a wave of synthesizers and electronic rhythms, their marriage of infectious melodies and state-of-the-art technology proving enormously influential on countless acts following in their wake. The group was formed in Sheffield, England, in 1977 by synth players Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh, who'd previously teamed as the duo Dead Daughters; following a brief...
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