The Psychedelic Furs: Come In, Sit Down And Take The Weight Off Your Cheekbones

SOME BRITISH ROCK MUSICIANS move to America to make their fortunes; others go to avoid sharing them with the Inland Revenue. Quite what the Psychedelic Furs have been doing over there, though, is something of a mystery. They decamped from the domestic post-punk community's department of noisy guitars in 1983, shed half their staff, adopted a more hummable style and have become increasingly difficult to get into perspective from this side of the Atlantic ever since.