Touch cover

Touch

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This might just be the most complete Eurythmics album. Coming in 1983 and giving them their first UK number one album, it exists perfectly on the cusp between the deep weirdness of In the Garden and Sweet Dreams and the later stadium drama of Be Yourself Tonight and Revenge . It’s still got an icy electropop heart (the creepy-crawly electronics of the closing “Paint a Rumour” still sounds radically ahead of its time), but there’s an immense amount of funk, and every song is an irresistible earworm even as Annie Lennox sings of fear, abuse, obsession and alienation.

Joe Muggs

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