Frenzied New Wave synthpop duo, Slow Children (singer Pal Shazar and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Chinich) put out two albums of smart music in the early 80s, both produced by Jules Shear (Jules and the Polar Bears) and future Pet Shop Boys collaborator Stephen Hague, who also played on the records.
They had three minor hits, “President Am I?” (an early MTV favorite),“Vanessa Vacillating” and “Spring In Fialta” (with a title swiped from a Vladimir Nabokov short story). Like a lot of people who remember them, I was exposed to Slow Children via the $1.99 RCA New Wave sampler called Blits, which also contained songs by Bow Wow Wow, Sparks, Shock (who I wrote about here) and the Philip Glass-produced group, Polyrock.