Labour of Lust (Remastered)

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As a songwriter and producer (Elvis Costello, the Pretenders), Nick Lowe helped turn U.K. punk into pop. This long-out-of-print 1979 set, a hookfest full of barbed wit, was his own pop moment. The hit was "Cruel to Be Kind," an Everly Brothers-meet-Stylistics defense of maso­chism. Less radio-friendly are "Big Kick, Plain Scrap," which repeats the […]