It's Immaterial ‎– Life's Hard And Then You Die

Best album ever! Stunning original songwriting, "pop" at heart but full of creativity in both music and lyrics, wit, intellingent words underlined with humour and melancholy. Classy arrangements with acoustic intruments and soft, warm electronic sounds, absolute magic within the whole 10 songs (13 on cd). "Happy Talk", "The Better Idea", "Space", "Lullaby", how many memories...i listen to these songs today feeling the same emotion i felt 25 years ago. Unforgettable.

The album title and the sleeve let you think this is somekind of dark 80's industrial or coldwave aus from Manchester or another pleasant Northern city. But as soon as you put the record on the desk, you are cut by the first tune : Driving away from home, a luminous song, hold by the universal act of leaving home one day, free as a bird, willing to see the world, join with your friends, and have fun. Then you also discover that the countryside around Sheffield-Manchester and co is much more gorgeous than you thought, and you change your mind about this area. A song for modern Hoboes, which was to become an Ibiza anthem later.