Cupid & Psyche 85 [SEP] record label
Cupid &amp; Psyche 85
Cupid & Psyche 85 is the second album by British/American pop group Scritti Politti, released in the UK on Virgin Records on 10 June 1985. The release continued frontman Green Gartside's embrace of commercial pop music stylings and state-of-the-art studio production, while its lyrics reflect his preoccupation with issues of language and politics.
It remains the band's most successful album, reaching number five in the UK, and was certified gold by the BPI for 100,000 copies
its own turns is hard to resist." "Rolling Stone" was cooler towards the record, acknowledging that Scritti Politti's new direction worked well on "Wood Beez" and "Absolute", but that "the rest of "Cupid & Psyche 85" isn't deviant enough. Green has absorbed the lessons of dance masters like Arif Mardin so well that he often imitates the very formulas he seeks to undermine... Stylishly wrought, at times delightfully eccentric, "Cupid & Psyche 85" is ultimately too true to its