For Recoil’s third album, Alan Wilder worked with a series of vocalists for the first time, resulting in a collection of generally shorter songs built around his carefully focused electronic arrangements. Curve’s Toni Halliday did striking turns on two cuts and Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy did the honors on a cover of Alex Harvey’s “Faith Healer.” Another guest, Moby, famously took inspiration from Wilder’s arrangement on “Electro Blues for Bukka White,” using the vocals of the late blues singer, as the basis for his own later commercial breakthrough, Play.

– Ned Raggett