The problem with many new wave bands is that they were producing music for kids - or better, kids who felt unlikely to the rest of the world labeled as 'usual'. The moment you outgrow such attitudes and start thinking conventionally, you will realise that groups like Classix Nouveaux which you fancied once so much, feel quite a shallow story. 'Night People' is a sort-of 'phantom of the opera'-styled rock with electronic touches here and there but obviously owing a great deal of debts to Ultravox. The opening number 'Forward' should've been a better choice if only left a merge of sequencers than later on added guitars and drums which destroyed it completely. 'Guilty', fares much better here on the LP than later single version, and remains one of the album's highlights. Occasionally, Sal Solo's operatic vocals might be of unusual quality to the whole if only he didn't use its patterns on more than one occasion ('Run Away', 'Every Home Should have One', 'Tokyo', 'Or a Movie', 'The Robot Dance') which proved far more annoying than of certain charm, which, generally speaking, there is. '623' is a powerful standout with synth-driven beats in a reggae-style, proving Classix Nouveaux could've been as innovative as their name suggests - this way it is a classic case of some quasi-Gothic, Nosferatu-misticism.

I love your review. I still bought the vinyl just now, because of nostalgia.