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• “Sense and Sensuality” (1982) was the second and final album by seminal British post-punk band Au Pairs. The four-piece group from Birmingham was very much in tune with the growing pains of the first punk explosion in the early 80s – they reduced their music to a funkier, more rhythmic essence compared to their debut album and shifted the focus of their lyrics to the personal rather than the political.

  The addition of horns and imaginative synthesizers allowed for a satisfying sonic diversity, from the disco-inspired dance-punk of “Instant Touch” to the cabaret swing of “Tongue in Cheek”. “That’s When It’s Worth It” takes several elements of popular post-punk – grinding auxiliary percussion rhythms and a sporadically deployed horn section – and processes them into a wild sound that’s e