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Sophisticated Boom Boom transported the Brill Building / Red Bird / Girl Group sound from the 60s into the New Wave year of 1982. These 14 compositions did not not lack in punk esprit and the band fell gloriously out of time in the jagged, slightly gloomy early 80s. Their sound was probably too cheerful, too bubblegum and too life-affirming, and they stopped after just one album. After the end of Sophisticated Boom Boom, the no less great C86/Power Pop band Chin Chin emerged from the ashes and released a compilation on Stephen Pastel's 53rd & 3rdLabel.