Au Pairs "Sense and Sensuality" LP

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Silver vinyl. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.  Limited and numbered to 750 copies. 

Sense and Sensuality (1982) was the second and final album by seminal British post-punk band Au Pairs. The four-piece group from Birmingham were very much in tune with the early 80s growth pangs from the first punk explosion - stripping down their music from their debut LP to a funkier, more rhythmic essence, and shifting the focus of their lyrics to the personal rather than the political.

The addition of horns and imaginative synthesizers allowed for more satisfying sonic diversity, from the disco-informed dance-punk of ''Instant Touch'' to the cabaret swing of ''Tongue in Cheek''. While ''That's When It's Worth It'' takes several elements of popular postpunk - looping auxiliary percussion rhythms and a sporadically used horn section - and crafts them into a wild sound that's equal parts dance, psychedelia, punk and art pop.