ULTRAVOX! (1977)
An album caught on the cusp between glam and punk, this is the band’s most conventional LP and one where a sense of doomed romanticism is never far away. Listen to the gloriously grandiose The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned for proof. “As for doomed romance,” considers John Foxx, “well, yes, it was initially about being young, but I’m still writing that song. Romance gets more attractive and more doomed – in more ways than you can ever imagine – as you grow older. Look at Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash.”
