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Au Pairs

Playing With A Different Sex (2025 Reissue)

limited numbered 180g audiophile turquoise LP + insert (750 only) - £29.99 | Pre Order
'Playing with a Different Sex' was the debut album by seminal post-punk band, Au Pairs, released in 1981.
Au Pairs

Sense and Sensuality (2025 Reissue)

limited numbered 180g audiophile silver LP (750 Only) - £29.99 | Buy
'Sense and Sensuality' (1982) was the second and final album by seminal British post-punk band, Au Pairs.
Playing With A Different Sex
  1. We’re So Cool
  2. Love Song
  3. Set-Up
  4. Repetition
  5. Headache (For Michelle)
  6. Come Again
  7. Armagh
  8. Unfinished Business
  9. Dear John
  10. It’s Obvious
  11. You (cd only)
  12. Domestic Departure (cd only)
  13. Kerb Crawler (cd only)
  14. Diet (cd only)
  15. Inconvenience (cd only)
  16. Pretty Boys (cd only)

Au Pairs

Playing With A Different Sex

sanctuary
  • CD

    Released: 18th Dec 2015

    £11.99
    out of stock

one of the great & perhaps forgotten, post-punk records - reissue of the debut studio album from the English post-punk band, originally released in 1981 through the Human record label.

Opening with the tongue in cheek "We're So Cool," the Au Pairs' debut record is a stunner, from Lesley Woods' scratchy guitar and declamatory vocals to lead guitarist Paul Foad's brittle soloing. This is an uncompromising, defiant record that asks no quarter; gender roles are turned upside down, hetero- and homosexual relationships put under a microscope, and theories about sex and sexuality turned inside out.

*** The CD reissue includes eight bonus tracks ***