(When Barbara Manning covered this she declined to utter the line “the fox fur you wear” and replaced it with “faux fur”)

Also here’s a 2012 live studio session recording of an old favorite

And the lyrics are smart and funny as ever and the band just sounds great. Also they are offering remasters now of some of their greatest records of the past few decades

They sound exactly like they did in the 80s, except that Graeme Downes’s songs have become increasingly influenced, it sounds to me, by his love of Gustav Mahler…so you get these catchy indie tracks sprinkled in among ensemble art songs that sound like they were adapted from chamber orchestra

Their final assignment, a paper entitled What’s Wrong With Our Professor, must cite at least 4 scholarly sources, including two peer-reviewed medical journals

I would argue that this isn’t satire but right wing disinformation explicitly intended for consumption by angry gullible people

Right??

The GOAT

Here’s a better look at its killer logo