China Crisis - Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms

The first of two masterpieces. More adventurous and sophisticated in their use of synthesizers than most of their contemporaries, their music might have had less immediate chart appeal, but has aged considerably better, similar to Simple Minds' "New Gold Dream" and Japan's "Tin Drum", but with slightly more optimistic and poppier tunes.



Highlights: Red Sails, Seven Sports For All, African and White, No More Blue Horizons, Some People.



Tracklisting:



01 Seven Sports for All 3:18

02 No More Blue Horizons 3:48

03 Feel to Be Driven Away 2:55

04 Some People I Know to Lead Fantastic Lives 3:33

05 Christian 5:37

06 African and White 3:46

07 Are We a Worker 3:30

08 Red Sails 4:43

09 You Never See It 2:57

10 Temptation's Big Blue Eyes 3:25

11 Jean Walks in Fresh Fields