WAR - Life (Is So Strange)

For some reason I can still remember that I was wearing Nike Legend trainers when I was walking out of the record shop in North Street, Romford, in 1983, aged 17, having just bought this LP. I might also have been wearing grey Farahs and an Ivan Lendl shirt, but I couldn't swear to that. Why I remember my footwear on that day is unclear; maybe they were new.

WAR had stripped down to a five-piece for this album, which - obviously - gives them a bit of a more sparse sound. Like most of their albums it has a couple of real bangers and a bit of filler (but...wall filler rather than...I dunno...land filler.) It's always Lee Oskar's harmonica playing that does it for me, and there's plenty on this album.

The very cowgum and scissors sleeve was done by Lou Beech, who has, it turns out, done heaps of album covers that I know. Check out his list of album art here: loubeach.com/album-art/

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