Affectionate Punch: Limited Turquoise Vinyl LP Hinako Omori and Yessingles reaffirms the band’s

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Affectionate Punch: Limited Turquoise Vinyl LP Hinako Omori and Yessingles reaffirms the band’sThe Affectionate Punch is the debut studio album by the Scottish post punk and new wave band the Associates. The album was released on 1 August 1980. From the album The Affectionate Punch and A were released as singles. Upon its release, The Affectionate Punch was declared a kind of masterpiece by Paul Morley of the NME, who described it as a passionate cabaret soul music, a fulfilment of the European white dance music Bowie was flirting with back