Cool Touch is a 1990 album

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, recorded

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 by the English

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 singer-songwriter

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, Leo Sayer

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. It was only released in the United Kingdom

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, Australia

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 and Germany

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. It was his first album release since 1983's Have You Ever Been in Love.

According to his own website

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, Sayer says... Producer Alan Tarney

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 and I were big dance music

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 fans

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, so we went back into the studio

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 to celebrate that. I guess this was the moment that all my James Brown influences bore fruit, and as always with Alan, we were knocking on the door of the current computer advances of the time. Now it was becoming scary what just two guys in the studio could do, so we had a lot of fun creating this. The album wasn't a big release, but that took the pressure off, so there’s a lot of wild creative stuff here. “I Can’t Stop” is a disco burner, “Rely On Me” is almost gospel

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, “Paperback Town” is political and I still don’t know how to describe “Suki’s Missing”, but it’s all very cool.

Track listing

1. "Cool Touch"
2. "Rely On Me"
3. "Young And In Love"
4. "Paperback Town"
5. "Going Home"
6. "My Favourite"
7. "I Can't Stop"
8. "Heaven Knows"
9. "Agents Of The Heart"
10. "Suki's Missing"

All songs were written

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 by Sayer and Tarney.

Personnel

• Producer
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  : Alan Tarney
• Arrangement
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  : Ben Robbins
• Engineer
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  : Gerry Kitchingham