Album: The Icicle Works
Year: 1983
An insanely catchy mix of a driving semi-African beat, curlicue guitar, and just enough New Wave sheen to sound great on both college radio and MTV, “Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)” is one of the more memorable one-shots that came out of the mid-80s.
At least for us Americans: despite both the single and the album cracking the top forty, their U.S. record company, Arista, didn’t release any of their next three albums, and by the time they got another U.S. record company to release one of their records, it was 1990, and nobody gave a shit.
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