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There’s a rich 80s tradition of British bands going across the pond to record their big-budget Stateside album with a dream team of session players. Love And Money’s second record Strange Kind Of Love, produced by legendary Steely Dan helmer Gary Katz and released at the tail end of 1988, was one of the most memorable – and most overlooked. Funkier than Curiosity or Hipsway but lyrically as piquant as The The or The Smiths, its literate, musicianly songs of unrequited love and corporate skulduggery were built to last.