{"product_id":"disguise_in_love","title":"Disguise In Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eDisguise in Love is the second studio album by Salford “punk poet” John Cooper Clarke, released in 1978 and backed by his studio band The Invisible Girls, led by producer\/bassist Martin Hannett and keyboardist Steve Hopkins. The record takes Clarke’s rapid‑fire, sardonic spoken‑word pieces and frames them with a mixture of spiky post‑punk, minimal synth textures, and occasionally surprisingly lush, melodic backing, making it both a document of his poetry and a fully fledged late‑70s new wave album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with the mock‑amiable “I Don’t Wanna Be Nice” and the sleazy live monologue “Psycle Sluts 1\u0026amp;2,” the album runs through satirical character pieces and social sketches like “(I’ve Got a Brand New) Tracksuit,” “Teenage Werewolf,” “Readers Wives,” and “Post War Glamour Girl,” before hitting one of Clarke’s best‑known works, “(I Married a) Monster from Outer Space.” The closing stretch—“Salome Maloney,” “Health Fanatic,” “Strange Bedfellows,” and “Valley of the Lost Women”—leans into darker humour and more atmospheric arrangements, with guest guitarists including Bill Nelson and Pete Shelley adding bite and colour. In retrospect, Disguise in Love is often regarded as a definitive statement of Clarke’s mix of razor‑sharp wit, working‑class surrealism, and punk‑era alienation, capturing both his stand‑up‑style delivery and the experimental studio context that set him apart from other poets of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53323914477882,"sku":"37719","price":51.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-04-15_at_4.18.14_PM_cb57ce3f-04ea-47fb-a364-9d4868d21654.jpeg?v=1779310214","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/disguise_in_love","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}