Menswear Vinyl Records
Menswear are perhaps the definitive band of the Britpop era, a group who embodied the stylish excess of the mid-'90s. Image and music were inextricably tied within the Camden-based quintet: bedecked in natty threads, Menswear looked the part of a proper band. Fashion helped spur a furious bidding war between British-based major labels, each looking for the next Blur or Oasis. Menswear signed with the London Records subsidiary Laurel months after their October 1994 formation, releasing their debut album, Nuisance, a year later.