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Our favourite Italian post punk encyclopaedia Ferruccio Quercetti joins us this week. He’s nominated the hugely influential, yet strangely underappreciated album Jeopardy by The Sound.

Being contemporaries with bands like Wire, Echo and the Bunnymen and Joy Division (to name a few - Ferro gives even more detail in the episode), it’s something of a mystery as to whey The Sound never quite reached the heights that those bands did. Indeed, if any band could be seen as one that could take the post punk mantle into new territory, The Sound would surely be the first name on some people’s lips…

And yet, it never quite panned out that way. That’s not to say they were unsuccessful - quite far from it, actually - but their lack of acclaim is something that irked the band. In particular, it was a source of discontent that would haunt the band’s late lead singer and primary songwriter Adrian Borland for most of his days.

On this episode we cover the band’s discography and also get into the weeds around how the press at the time didn’t really seem to enamoured with them, and the impact that had on the group personally and musically.

Is Jeopardy an unsung classic? You decide. Vote below.