#167
May 20 1985
Frank Tovey (Fad Gadget)
Snakes and Ladders
Genre: Synth Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
The Cutting Edge
Snakes and Ladders
Somewhere in the Venn diagram of Sparks, Gary Numan, New Order and Dead or Alive (with a touch of Wall of Voodoo)is this album by Frank (Fad Gadget) Tovey. What that means is it’s New Wave dance music with an uncompromising British/Nasal vocal and attitudinal lyrics that add up to very little.
It’s nowhere near as bad as last year’s Gadget offering but it’s already dated by the time it’s released.
This doesn’t really reward the listener as it goes on but it reminds me that “New Wave” is all but dead and the “80s” are about 1979-1984.
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