Flaunt the Imperfection
by China Crisis
- Type: Album
- Released: 29 April 1985
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 43:02
- Community rating: 3.49/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Tim Renwick, Nick Magnus, musician, Gary Daly, Ginny Clee, Kevin Wilkinson, Peter Thoms, Colin Campsie, Eddie Lundon, Roddy Lorimer, Gazza Johnson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by Steely Dan's Walter Becker, China Crisis delivered a remarkably smooth, pristine masterpiece of 80s sophisti-pop. The album elegantly fuses jazz-pop sensibilities with incredibly soft synthesizers and fretless basslines, creating a lush, wonderfully mellow sonic atmosphere. 'Flaunt the Imperfection' is a deeply soothing, highly melodic, and abstractly romantic triumph of sophisticated British pop.
Genres
Descriptors: lounge, melodic, synth, slick, polished
Tracklist
- The Highest High (4:15)
- Strength Of Character (2:53)
- You Did Cut Me (4:17)
- Black Man Ray (3:37)
- Wall Of God (5:31)
- Gift Of Freedom (4:38)
- King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up) (4:29)
- Bigger The Punch I'm Feeling (4:21)
- The World Spins, I'm Part Of It (4:14)
- Blue Sea (4:43)
Credits
- China Crisis - primary artist, arranged by [arrangers]
- Simon Clarke - alto saxophone [alto sax], baritone saxophone [baritone sax], flute
- Walter Becker - arranged by [arrangers], arranged by [brass arranged by], performer [china crisis], producer, synthesizer [synthesiser], percussion
- The Kick Horns - arranged by [brass arranged by]
- Colin Campsie - backing vocals
- Eddie Lundon - backing vocals, performer [china crisis], vocals, guitar, words by, written-by [songs]
- Gary Daly - backing vocals, performer [china crisis], vocals, synthesizer [synthesiser], words by, written-by [songs]
- Ginny Clee - backing vocals
- Gazza Johnson - bass, programmed by [sequence programming], performer [china crisis], written-by [songs]
- Icon - design, photography by
- Kevin Wilkinson - drums, percussion, performer [china crisis]
- Phill Brown - engineer
- Nick Magnus - grand piano, synthesizer [synthesiser], programmed by [keyboard programming], musician [guest musicians], soloist [solo synth]
- Tim Renwick - guitar, soloist [solo guitar], musician [guest musicians]
- John Dent - lacquer cut by
- Steve Gregory - musician [guest musicians], saxophone, soloist [saxophone solos]
- JSG Music (Bingley) Yorks - other [instrument and equipment]
- Tim Sanders - soprano saxophone [soprano sax], tenor saxophone [tenor sax]
- Peter Thoms - trombone
- Roddy Lorimer - trumpet, flugelhorn [flugel horn], soloist [solo flugel horn]