Fashion - Fabrique de Luxe: Face 03 (CD)

Like high-street trends themselves, Birmingham outfit Fashion were never far from a creative overhaul. Ditching the accoutrements of the late-'70s post-punk era, they embraced the burgeoning new-wave and synth-pop scenes of the early '80s and stepped out with their second album, Fabrique, in the summer of 1982. Chart success followed, with the singles Streetplayer-Mechanik and Love Shadow marking the group's breakthrough into the UK pop mainstream and helping to usher their parent album into the top 10.

A breakout from the multi-disc Fabrique De Luxe collection, Face 03 features single B-sides (Mutant Mechanik, Alternative Playback (Full Frame) and Let's Play Dirty (Centrefold), alongside an assortment of mixes that went unreleased at the time but which, today, prove that Fashion had always been cut from their own cloth.

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Tracklist:

1. Move On (Audio Extra)
2. StreetPlayer - Mechanik (Audio Extra)
3. Love Shadow- Smokey Dialogue
4. Something in Your Picture (Motor Drive)
5. Mutant Mechanik
6. Love Shadow (7" remix)
7. Alternative Playback (Full Frame)
8. Let's Play Dirty - (Centrefold)
9. Love Shadow (U.S. 12" Promo Mix)
10. Something in Your Picture (Test Pressing Mix)