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Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners · 1980

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is Dexys Midnight Runners’ debut studio album, recorded over 12 days at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in April 1980 and released in July 1980. Produced by Pete Wingfield, it features the UK No. 1 single 'Geno' and bears the band’s 'Late Night Feelings' imprint. Its sleeve uses a photograph of a Belfast Catholic boy carrying his belongings after moving from his home during the Troubles. The album’s sound is an energetic mix of pop, Northern soul and punkish attitude—brassy, urgent, and deliberately unpolished.