Tuesday, August 2, 2022

The 1981 Listening Post - The Gents - This Way to...The Gents

 The Gents - This Way to...The Gents



#572

1981 Housekeeping

1981 Housekeeping

The Gents

This Way to…The Gents

Genre: Mod Power Pop

3.75 out of 5




Highlights:

The Faker

Le Pinke Panther



You like The Vapors? You might like The Gents. Not as complex as the stuff Fenton would come up with and the synths certainly lush everything up but I can see them on a bill with the Turning Japanese lads and warming the audience up just fine. 

Does this have an obligatory new wave Reggae type track? Oh, you bet it does. “Revenge” checks that box with a super weird keyboard that wants to be a steel drum but also doesn’t.



This is a cassette sampler but serves perfectly as an entree to a band whose career was much shorter than it probably shoulda been. 





https://music.apple.com/us/album/this-way-to-the-gents/934501105

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