China Crisis – Working With Fire And Steel (VG/VG+) – LP, PH 1983

Working With Fire And Steel is an LP by China Crisis from 1983 released on the Virgin label.

About this album

Working With Fire And Steel (Possible Pop Songs Volume Two) is the record where China Crisis refined their smart, melodic new-wave sound into something brighter and more assured. Released in 1983, the album blends synth-pop polish with guitar-led pop songwriting, balancing taut rhythms and crisp arrangements against Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly’s distinctly reflective lyrics. Led by the title track and “Wishful Thinking”, it helped establish the band as one of the more literate and musically distinctive British pop groups of the early 1980s. Its combination of hooky singles, cool textures and understated wit made it an enduring part of the era’s pop landscape.

Genre: Pop & Rock