Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party is a compilation album of unreleased material by Canadian

Canada

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 80s new wave

New Wave music

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 band Spoons

Spoons (band)

Spoons are a Canadian New Wave new romantic synth pop music group, formed in 1979 in Burlington, Ontario. They recorded several Canadian chart hits between 1982 and 1989, and in 1983, they won Group of the Year at the U-Know awards...

. Named after the b-side to their "Talk Back" single, it was released independently by Spoons member Gordon Deppe in .

Background and writing

According to Gordon Deppe the album "covers the time roughly between 1983 and 1985", and is currently the band's newest release of studio material since their 1988 Vertigo Tango album.

Deppe related the origin of the material: "Most of these songs were recorded after "Romantic Traffic" and "Tell No Lies", in a tiny, hidden away studio in Oakville, Ontario

Oakville, Ontario

Oakville is a town in Halton Region, on Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area. As of the 2006 census the population was 165,613.-History:In 1793, Dundas Street was surveyed for a military road...

. We were about to embark on a whole new chapter in our musical lives that would leave these old ideas forgotten, to slowly weather over time and eventually fade into the earth."

A few of these songs were played live including "In the Hands of Money" (circa 1984) which can be seen on the Spoons' DVD Spoons Live in Concert.

Track listing

1. "Love Drum" – 4:16
2. "Show & Tell" – 3:33
3. "Unpremeditated Love" – 3:47
4. "2,000 Years" – 4:21
5. "World in Motion" – 4:16
6. "Bending" – 3:32
7. "Young English Gentleman" – 3:35
8. "In the Hands of Money" – 3:34
9. "No Promises" – 4:39
10. "Spaces" – 3:12
11. "Love Can Be a Stranger" – 3:31
12. "Ciao" – 1:34

Personnel

• Gordon Deppe: vocals, guitar
• Sandy Horne: vocals, bass
• Rob Preuss: keyboards
• Derrick Ross: drums