Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

byClaire Francis
December 12, 2024

"It might seem slightly disingenuous to label an album by Soda Stereo as “buried treasure”'...

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Claire Francis

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

The Twins ‘A Wild Romance’ (Hansa International, 1983)

byImogen Bebb

The Twins were a synthpop group formed in Berlin in 1980, and unlike the twins of the Thompson variety, there were just two of them. Rather disappointingly though, they weren’t actually twins.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

byNeil Mason

‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)

byBen Willmott

Leila Arab was born in Iran, but moved to Britain at an early age, her family forced to flee the country’s Islamic Revolution because of her father’s ties with the ousted Shah

BBuried Treasure

3 minute read

Paddy Mcaloon

byJools Stone

In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

BBuried Treasure

3 minute read

Robert Leiner ‘Visions Of The Past’ (Apollo, 1994)

byPush

It was quite remarkable. It still is.

Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

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Claire Francis

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

The Twins ‘A Wild Romance’ (Hansa International, 1983)

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)

Paddy Mcaloon

Robert Leiner ‘Visions Of The Past’ (Apollo, 1994)

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Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

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