Old Enough to Forget

It was sealed, and it was cheap, and it followed me home so I got to keep it. New Regime, stylized as new:regime, was a relatively short lived '80s new wave tinged rock band who released two albums on RCA, their self titled debut in '85 and The Race , which was released in '87. Me personally, I don't think I'd heard of them and reading through the credits I can't say I recognized any of the main players. I did recognize Neil Chapman's (Pukka Orchestra) name along with Dalbello under the additional musicians section, which did lend a little cred from my perspective. I had been puttering in the basement, so I figured I'd just put this one on and crank it up. Admittedly not the best way to road test a new album, but it is what it is. Musically this sort of hit where I thought it would, which was cool. It was very mid '80s and reminded me a lot of Robbie Nevil (only on the first listen, after that it was harder to hear), but you'd be forgiven if you ...