Hey there musical Dopers, I was hoping you could help me with a small problem. I’m trying to remember the name of an album I discovered on Youtube many moons ago. All I remember was the artwork was in the style of a Soviet propaganda poster (lots of red) and it was from the 80s. I’m trying to find it because the vocalist had a certain drawl to his voice that made him sound less like someone from the 80s and more like the leader of some indie band today. I was discussing the “indie drawl” with a friend and was trying to dig it up to show her, but couldn’t find it again for the life of me. Would anyone here know what album I’m talking about?
Strange Man Changed Man by Bram Tchaikovsky?
Perhaps one of the covers shown in this blogpost?
Unfortunately, no. I was hoping this would be easier to ID since I don’t think communist-style album covers were popular yet in the 80s.
Was it mostly red with very little actual art, or was there a lot of art? The former rings a bell with me.
Michael Gerald of Killdozer drawled, but his voice was also very low, unlike indie bands today. Their album The Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat had a Soviet propaganda poster look. Although that particular album is from the 90’s, Killdozer started in the 1980’s.
Sadly, there wasn’t a whole album, just a single.
This was in 1981 just before he joined the Human League, iirc.
I can’t really remember, I think there was a picture of a man.
The only one I can think of is Matching Mole’s Little Red Record, but that was from the 70s.
Well there are a number of album covers from the Communards that fit, but the voice is opposite of the description in the OP.