Late '70s/Early '80s Electronic/New Wave

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One of my very favorites of this type of music is Metamatic (1980) by John Foxx:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AWQ7O3DAPl0

There were similar late 1970s, early 1980s electronic/new wave albums, like Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle (which was in turn inspired by Foxx's slightly earlier Ultravox albums, somewhat), but I have not listened to any other album with quite this style expression of cold, dystopian, and futuristic sounds and lyrical themes. At least with regards to what made it to the Mainstream airwaves, this kind of frozen electronic music was also a rather brief trend, unless I'm mistaken, probably because of the lack of radio-friendly popiness, although songs such as "Young Love," (originally planned to be Foxx's first solo single in 1979), "Underpass," (an actual British radio hit for a time) "No-One Driving," (a more minor hit compared to the other) and "Touch and Go" (it had the makings of a good single, but probably a bit long in length) could possibly have made it bigger than they ended up.

What do you think of Metamatic, after listening?

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