Old music: Au Pairs – It's Obvious

You don't need to decode Au Pairs lyrics to get a feel for their dark, divisive timesBy the time I discovered Au Pairs, they'd already broken up. The post-punk band from Birmingham were short-lived, splitting in 1983, just two years after their debut album, Playing With a Different Sex. That album stopped me in my tracks. The title was suggestive, but the message was anything but sexy once you'd digested the scalding sarcasm of its lyrics, dripping with contempt for the cliches of contemporary s...

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