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What Price Paradise

China Crisis

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Released: Feb 2008
Label: Caroline World Service
Citing Steely Dan as a key influence didn't earn you any coolness points in the new wave-crazed 1980s. But that didn't stop China Crisis from lovingly working a jazzy studio sheen into their otherwise very British synth-pop. China Crisis's gentle English nature makes the results sound more like an artier Haircut 100 than the corrosive Steely Dan, but the results are oddly pleasing. Unlike the band's previous albums, What Price Paradise didn't click with the U.K. public, but the album has aged well. Think of Hall and Oates turning agrarian political theory into winning picnic melodies.
- Nick Dedina
China Crisis - What Price Paradise 2008-03-19
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