Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

’The Word Girl’ was the fourth single to be taken from ’Cupid & Psyche ’85’ and was released in 1985. ’Cupid and Psyche ’85’ was reissued by Rough Trade on Friday 30th July 2021 on CD and LP. The Word Girl Green Gartside: “Although much of the work on this album was done behind massive gleaming SSL consoles in huge New York studios – with trouser-wateringly exorbitant hourly rates – we did the vocals for this at a residential studio in the English countryside. It was winter, and from the vocal booth, I could look out of the window across the snow-laden fields. I remember seeing a handful of particularly forlorn-looking sheep standing, staring vacantly, in the drifts as the flakes fell. One, in particular, was eyeing me purposefully. I think my vocal performance somehow captured or embodied something of the plight of that disconsolate ruminant.” David Gamson: “Those melodies! Green really knocked it out of the park on this song. When it became clear that it was sounding like a single, we did a bunch of e