The Farm - Love See No Colour (1992)

With the band having already plowed their way to the top of the U.K. charts
with their debut album Spartacus, it's no wonder the Farm's follow-up, Love
See No Colour, sounds so positively joyous. The 1992 set spun off four Top
50 singles, with the biggest of the batch, the enjoyable but superfluous
cover of Human League's "Don't You Want Me," arguably the weakest of them
all. Far better were "Mind" and "Rising Sun," both charting dancefloor
fillers, the former driven by the same fabulous gospel styled backing
vocals that also gives a soulful punch to "Hard Times," a jubilant number
that oddly wasn't picked for singledom. Mostly, though, the Farm happily
reaped musical seeds that were sown long before, harvesting fields of
infectious synth pop, atmospheric New Romanticism, and bright new wave, and
cross-breeding these with snippets of contemporary house. "New
International" and the more experimental "Suzy Boo" flicker between
proto-industrial and trance, "Creepers" crawls from classical to the
Renaissance before hustling off to funky town, while "Tooth Fairy" flits
between acid house and progressive rock. All told a strong album, equal to
its successor, but oddly the set itself didn't chart, perhaps because by
the time of its release, everybody considered the Farm a singles band.Their loss.