as the 1980s wore on, the style council's popularity in the uk began to slide, with the band achieving only one top ten single after 1985. the style council's death knell was sounded in 1989 when its record company refused to release its fifth and final studio album, the house-influenced "". with the rejection of this effort, weller announced that the style council had split, and although the final album did have a limited vinyl run, it was not until the 1998 retrospective cd box set "the complete adventures of the style council" that the album would be widely available.