STRANGE BOUTIQUE-REISSUE-

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