Favourite album: Risqué by Chic

Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Paul Lester takes a tour through love's darker chambers with ChicChic's third album came out in 1979, the same year as Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Earth Wind & Fire's I Am, those other symphonic disco classics. I always thought it had as much in common with Talking Heads' Fear of Music and PiL's Metal Box, also from 1979 and featuring a darker kind of dance music. Risqué was most definitely dark, from the fancy, grainy black and white...

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