Connell left in 1985 to form Swing Out Sister, whose singer Corinne Drewery guested on ACR's next album, "Force" (1986), their last for Factory. In January 1986 they performed live on Channel 4 music show "The Tube". New releases were sparse during the next two years. Dojo Records released a 1985 live recording as an album in February 1987, and Italian label Materiali released an EP five months later. The band signed with A&M Records in 1987, the lineup now Kerr, Moscrop, Johnson, and Quigley, the first releases for the label the singles "The Big E" and "Backs to the Wall", which preceded the album "Good Together", released in September 1989. A 50–minute recording of a live show from London was broadcast on British television in October. They also set up their own SoundStation studio in Manchester. The band's only significant chart success with A&M came with the 1990 single "Won't Stop Loving You", which peaked at no. 55 on the UK Singles Chart, although the first two singles also made the lower reaches of the chart. The album "acr:mcr" followed, but the band were then dropped from the label. In 1991, they signed with Rob's Records, owned by New Order manager and former Factory Records partner Rob Gretton, releasing a string of singles and the album "Up in Dowsnville" (1992). In 1994, Creation Records began reissuing the band's albums on the Rev-Ola sub-label, and also released two EPs of remixes. The band's first original material for almost three years was released in August 1996, with the live "Soundstation Volume 1" EP, followed in November with the "Change the Station" album. A second "Soundstation" live EP was released in March 1997, the band's last release for some time. In 2002 Soul Jazz Records reissued the albums with bonus tracks (but using the same masters as the Creation editions). Further re-issues and a live recording from 1980 have also been made available on the LTM label. The band played occasional live shows between 2002 and 2007, and performed in the US for the first time since 1985 on 16 November 2008, headlining the Part Time Punks festival at The Echo in Los Angeles, releasing a new album "Mind Made Up" the same month, on French label Le Maquis. They performed a headline set at the Offset Festival in London in September 2009, playing alongside fellow post-punk artists The Slits, following a one-off live performance commemorating Factory Records in Dublin, in March that year.