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01. The Monochrome Set - The Monochrome Set (I Presume)
02. The Monochrome Set - The Lighter Side Of Dating
03. The Monochrome Set - Expresso
04. The Monochrome Set - The Puerto Rican Fence Climber
05. The Monochrome Set - Tomorrow Will Be Too Long
06. The Monochrome Set - Martians Go Home
07. The Monochrome Set - Love Goes Down The Drain
08. The Monochrome Set - Ici Les Enfants
09. The Monochrome Set - The Etcetera Stroll
10. The Monochrome Set - Goodbye Joe
11. The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutique
ARTIST
TITLE
Strange Boutique
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 394CD TR 394CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/3/2020

"I read a bit of Restoration poetry and listen to Leadbelly, and it comes out like that." (Bid, The Monochrome Set)

Tapete Records present a reissue of The Monochrome Set's first album Strange Boutique, originally released in 1980. The casual prose of pop history is full of backhanded compliments, and The Monochrome Set have received a few, ranging from "should have been massive" to "influential", numbering the likes of Morrissey and Marr, Blur's Graham Coxon and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos among their celebrity admirers. Released in February 1980, their first album Strange Boutique, featuring the band's percussion-heavy theme song (predating Adam & The Ants' "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by months) and the Johnny Marr-anticipating "Love Goes Down The Drain", caught the Monochrome Set in full flight, quickly followed by the equally taut, funny and adventurously dynamic Love Zombies (TR 395CD/LP).