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2LP Vinyl –  7722674

His ‘n’ Hers has endured because it’s a record that sounded out of time even when it arrived. Made by people who looked like their outfits had been acquired at an Oxfam closing down sale, produced by Ed Buller – who the same year, would bring his ethereal touch to Suede’s excellent Dog Man Star – it’s a record that manages to sound completely in thrall to the great pop of the past – Roxy, Bowie, Human League, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg – while also quite unlike anything that had been heard until that point and nothinglike anything that’s followed since. Sorry Long Blondes, you were good, but… And it’s because it’s a record that’s all chemistry, like it couldn’t be replicated by any other combination of people, at any other time, in any other setting. Candida Doyle’s analog synths hum with a warmth only present in the circuitry of instruments manufactured in a prior age. The glacial atmospherics of guitarist/violin player Russell Senior infuse some of the album’s most exciting moments, laying down beds of noise for Jarvis to deliver his sermons upon.