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The Human League
Jan 13, 2010 Updated Jan 14, 2010

Seminal 80's synth swingers The Human League are on the comeback trail after signing with hip label Wall of Sound.

Phil Oakey, Susan Sulley and Joanne Catherall have endured something of a dry spell since their last album Secret  flopped spectacularly in 2001.

It's almost 30 years since Don't You Want Me became their first chart-topper, and in recent times the band have kept the wolf from the door by appearing in a string of 80s revival shows.

But their fortunes may be about to change now they have signed up as stablemates to the likes of Grace Jones, Soulwax and Reverend and the Makers.

A new Human League album is slated for release later this year.

Source: The Daily Swarm external link

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The Human League are a British synthpop band formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day. Originally an avant-garde all-male synthesizer-based group from Sheffield, the only constant band member since...

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On Jan 15, 2010. 6:16pm

do you want the long or the short answer? (actually, they're both NO)

On Jan 17, 2010. 11:01am

Oooh - saucer of milk for Wide Open...!

Actually, seeing as how their 2001 effort was such a fizzer, they've maybe left it a bit too long to have another crack at it...30 years IS a long time between drinks...

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