LISFRANK - I Still Believe in Love (1982)

Simply one of the greatest electronic pop songs ever made. Every time I hear it I wish I'd composed it.
If I could only take two mutant synthpop releases from the early 80s to a desert island, they may just be Snowy Red's The Right To Die album and Lisfrank's Man Mask EP. They are very similar, both in quality, invention and looseness - no machine robotiks here - and with the human element very much to the fore.
Man Mask has that indefinable Italian extra added ingredient, dark/coldwave perhaps but with a warm tinge to the angst; Carmody, Neon and Chromagain also possess it but for me Lisfrank is the pick of the bunch. Live drums mix with electronic percussion, giving a less quantized feel to the beat, and the tracks evolve in their own way rather than obeying verse/chorus/verse structure. Sheer genius, and the usual travesty that music such as this remained so inaccessible to the majority through lack of airplay/exposure.
As part of the inexorable minimal synth revival, Annalogue released Mask Rewind album + 7" in 2009, details here: www.annaloguere...
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[@TLACATECUHTLI88]

I really love this song. It's so amazing. Cheers from Mexico.

[@KGBeast.]

Man what a beautiful song

[@theoriginalbluey]

Wonderful man makes wonderful music, and continues to do so!