1992 was one of those years where whether you were dancing at five am in a field or getting tinnitus at a festival, if you remembered later it you probably weren’t there.
At least that’s what it looks like now, but disco biscuits and check shirts were niche accessories even then in a world where pop was still largely short for popular. The canny recruitment of Marcella Detroit as a means of transforming Shakespears Sister from a Siobhan Fahey’s solo project had already paid dividends with You’re History, but when their second album Hormonally Yours arrived almost three years later, the neo-gothic ballad from it Stay brought them success beyond which either could’ve hoped for.
It was to be their downfall too, but the rest of Hormonally Yours was way more intelligent and full of ideas to be dismissed as simply there to make up the numbers. A concept album loosley based around an ancient b-movie, on it the duo messed with rock, funk and disco – as well as people’s heads – in a carefree manner which meant it deserves some re-examination 30 years after it’s release. Just leave the vapour rub in the medicine cabinet.
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The Voice Of Unreason 