The five hundred and fifty-second album: #552 Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Musically, there's just a lot of well performed new wave to this album. It's quite a big production, there's a bit of punk still lingering in the background and the occasional effect that you can only pull off on an album and wouldn't work as well on stage. The main vocals aren't exceptional, but that allows for a larger focus on the lyrics, which poetically create a story that stays quite engaging with more depth than others. It works really well here.