Modernism: A New Decade

Modernism: A New Decade
Studio album by
Released26 October 1998 (1998-10-26)
Recorded1989
Genre
Length49:45
LabelPolydor
ProducerThe Style Council
The Style Council chronology
Confessions of a Pop Group
(1988)
Modernism: A New Decade
(1998)
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Modernism: A New Decade is the fifth and final studio album by the English band the Style Council. It represented a departure from the band's core genre of pop, to a new one: deep house, which was then being referred to as "garage" (as in Paradise Garage) music by the UK press. However, upon its completion in 1989, the album was rejected by the band's label Polydor, which led to the band breaking up.

The track "That Spiritual Feeling" was re-recorded as a B-side to the first solo single by Style Council member Paul Weller, his 1991 hit "Into Tomorrow". The full album was eventually released in 1998 on the box set The Complete Adventures of The Style Council; a separate release was authorised and issued on 30 October 2001.