Nervus Rex, ‘Don’t Look’ (1980)

The tough-talking power pop of early Blondie lives in this sultry, spy-soundtracky number, partly thanks to the producer Mike Chapman, who recorded the breakthrough ‘Parallel Lines’ with Debbie Harry’s group two years earlier. Though the band went nowhere, the singer-songwriter-guitarist Shaun Brighton achieved modest success as a member of the Puppets, whose one-and-done electro-dance hit The Way of

Life burnt brightly on newwave radio circa 1983.