release date: Nov. 2, 1981
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,06]
producer: Chris Hughes
label: CBS Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Scorpios" (3 / 5) - 3. "Prince Charming" - 6. "Stand and Deliver" (4 / 5) - 10. "S.E.X."
3rd and final studio album by Adam and the Ants shows a stylistic change that really only made the band more mainstream as new romantic was flourishing everywhere. The band had turned down the more aggressive elements from punk rock and new wave, so this comes out as a more polished pop release. However, the band now appealed to a new audience who perhaps found bands like Duran Duran and ABC more tolerable, and AATA stood by a cross road [and made a wrong turn]. Many fans familiar with the band's first two albums saw this as mainstream pop and a bad decision.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]
