"This is 1984!"

Hey Mari, here's something else to make us feel like kids again ... Martha and the Muffins are releasing their first album, Delicate, in 18 years. Wow. It's due Feb. 2 on their own label, Muffin Music. Mess (posted above) is the first taste.

"Making Delicate was like a TV reality show: love, hate, sex, death and disease, it was all happening at once. If the music hadn't been good, I would've been totally lost," says Mark Gane.

The Toronto new wave/pop duo of Gane and Martha Johnson were MuchMusic stars in the '80s, thanks to Echo Beach and White Station/Black Station.