Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears Of Technology – Ace CD

Compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, “The Tears Of Technology” celebrates this brief period when scruffy synth duos from the provinces broke through and took over British pop. Like mellotrons before them, synths could project a strange and deep emotion; listen to OMD’s ‘Sealand’, or the Human League’s ‘WXJL Tonight’, and it was clear that something in the wiring had an inherent melancholy. “The Tears Of Technology” celebrates an era of electronic melancholia, synthesized intimacies and insights – even Tomorrow’s World didn’t see that coming.

tracklist:
China Crisis – Jean Walks In Fresh Fields
Turquoise Days – Grey Skies
Simple Minds – Real To Real
Illustration – Tidal Flow
Care – An Evening In The Ray
Soft Cell – Youth
John Foxx – Europe After The Rain
Patrik Fitzgerald – Personal Loss
Eyeless In Gaza – Lights Of April
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Sealand
Thomas Leer – Private Plane
Electronic Circus – Direct Lines
The Pale Fountains – Unless
Chris & Cosey – October (Love Song)
New Musik – A Map Of You
The Human League – Wxjl Tonight
Paul Haig – Christiana
The Teardrop Explodes – Tiny Children
Oppenheimer Analysis – Behind The Shades
Trevor Bastow – Feather Bed