Album Genre: Synthpop

Stay on These Roads is the third full-length album by the rock band A-ha. It was released on 3 May 1988 through Warner Bros. Records.

Introspective is the third studio album by the English electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1988 and is the Pet Shop Boys’ second-best-selling album, selling over 4.5 million copies worldwide. (Their fifth studio album, Very, sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.) It is so named because “all the songs, … Read more

Wild! is the fourth studio album by British band Erasure. Released in 1989, it was the follow-up album to their 1988 breakthrough The Innocents. The album was produced by Erasure, along with Gareth Jones and Mark Saunders and released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S.

Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s second and last studio album, released in October 1986. It would be the band’s final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT. The album was a commercial disappointment compared to … Read more

Islands is the second album by English new wave band Kajagoogoo, released on 21 May 1984 on the EMI label. This was the band’s first album without lead vocalist Limahl, who had been fired by the band in mid-1983 and went on to pursue a solo career. Bassist Nick Beggs, already the group’s main background … Read more

New Traditionalists is the fourth studio album by the New Wave rock band Devo. It was produced by Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, and Gerald and Bob Casale, and was released in August 1981 on Warner Bros. Records. It features the minor hits “Through Being Cool” and “Beautiful World.” The sound continued in the vein of … Read more

Junk Culture is the fifth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1984. The three most successful singles from the album were “Locomotion”, which reached #5 in the UK, “Talking Loud and Clear” (#11), and “Tesla Girls” (#21). Junk Culture has a different sound because of a change in instrumentation due to the … Read more

Afternoons in Utopia is the second album released by Alphaville in 1986, by Warner Music. The album was recorded between September 1985 and May 1986, and Alphaville employed no less than 27 guest musicians and singers to record the songs. 500,000 copies of the album have been sold. Reviews for this album were again generally … Read more