Formed in 1989, the Melbourne folk-pop act Frente! debuted with the self-funded 1991 EP, Whirled, which had garnered enough notice from alt-radio powerhouse Triple J to land the saucy, spare "Labour of Love" in the Hottest 100 for 1991. Frente! signed to Mushroom Records in the wake of that success, and their debut full-length, Marvin the Album, came out in 1992. A showcase for Angie Hart's kittenish, yet knowing voice, Marvin the Album runs the stylistic gamut while staying happily weird on songs like the skip-stepping "Ordinary Angels," the sugary "Accidently Kelly Street" and the strummy "No Time." The buzz Frente! was receiving in Australia eventually spilled over to the rest of the world, and when the band toured Europe in 1994, American indie Mammoth released Marvin the Album in slightly reconfigured form, dropping a couple of songs while adding three new tracks including the band’s stripped-down take on New Order's 1986 synth-pop smash "Bizarre Love Triangle." That cover, which along with the other new Frente! cuts, was released in Australia on the EP Lonely, gave Frente! a U.S. breakthrough hit. In 2014, Frente! released a 21st-anniversary edition of Marvin the Album, which combined its two versions into a complete picture of the band's early-'90s success.