Daily album for September 5, 2025 Dare by The Human League (1981)

Cover art for Dare

Genres

  • dance-pop
  • dance-rock
  • electronic
  • new romantic
  • new wave
  • pop
  • synth-pop

Dare is the third studio album by the English synth-pop band The Human League, first released in the United Kingdom in October 1981 and then subsequently in the US in mid-1982. The album was produced by Martin Rushent and recorded between March and September 1981, following the departure of founding members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, and saw the band shift direction from their previous avant-garde electronic style toward a more pop-friendly, commercial sound led by frontman Philip Oakey.

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