Scritti Politti - Provision (1988)

Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, England, by Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. He is the only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history.

Beginning as a punk-inspired collective of art students and squatters, Scritti Politti released several early post-punk recordings on Rough Trade Records before transitioning into a mainstream pop music project in the early to mid-1980s, achieving success in the record charts in the UK and the US. The group's most successful album, 1985's Cupid & Psyche 85, spawned three UK top 20 hits with "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)", "Absolute", and "The Word Girl", as well as a US top 20 hit with "Perfect Way".

The band's 1988 album Provision was a UK top 10 success, though it only produced one UK top 20 hit single, "Oh Patti". After releasing two non-album singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B.E.F., Gartside retired to South Wales for more than seven years.[9] He returned in the late 1990s, releasing Anomie & Bonhomie in 1999. In 2005, Rough Trade released the compilation Early, which collected the band's first releases. In 2006, Gartside released the stripped-down White Bread, Black Beer.