![]() The album - which was released in the US as ‘Two Wheels Good’ - stayed in the UK charts for 35 weeks and a re-released version of “When Loves Breaks Down” became the band’s first Top 40 hit. It is also a record that toys with your emotions, the piercingly sincere evocation of heartbreak only becoming more evident when you strip away the extraordinary and unique multi-layers of supraproduction. ![]() Lovingly produced by Thomas Dolby, to this day ‘Steve McQueen’ remains as “eloquent as anything by Leonard Cohen, as angry as Elvis Costello at his most spiteful and accompanied by the melodic grace of Brian Wilson” (Uncut). Scary and rather strange sounding these days, it remains a timely snapshot of how Prefab Sprout were developing as a band but it wasn’t until the release of ‘Steve McQueen’ in 1985 that the floodgates truly opened and all bets were off. ![]() The album that followed - ‘Swoon’ - released on the independent Newcastle-based Kitchenware label in 1984, drew comparisons with Steely Dan and Aztec Camera but was far more beautiful and complex than that comparison suggests. ![]()
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