Dreamtime  by The Stranglers

Dreamtime was the ninth studio album by The Stranglers. The album was marked by the departure of producer Laurie Latham from the recordings, who expressed the view that the compositions The Stranglers had brought to the studio still needed work. This caused misunderstandings with the members of the group, and he left. The band worked with producer Mike Kemp.

The sound of Dreamtime seems to belong to another band and not to the new wave band that had emerged ten years earlier and pioneered its genre. The musical style is noticeably less complex on a compositional level. The songs "scream" that they want to become hits, but they cannot. With the exception of the album's first single, the emblematic "Always The Sun," the other two singles "Nice In Nice" and "Big In America," and a few other songs, the rest of the album passes by indifferently to the listener's ears.

In Britain, it reached No. 16 and on the Billboard at No. 172. The Stranglers had reached an impasse.