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Originally released in 1984,
No Sense of Sin, the debut album from Liverpool duo The Lotus Eaters, fitted in nicely with much of the intelligently crafted but somewhat fey pop--think
Aztec Camera or
Haircut100--that was around at the time. Their solitary Top 20 hit, "First Picture of You", still sounds pretty good, but the surprise is that some of the less well-known cuts hold up even better. Those chiming guitars at the start of "Can You Keep a Secret", or the languid Bowie-esque dance groove of "Put Your Touch on Love", suggest that Peter Coyle and Jem Kelly were unlucky not to score several more hits. Appearing for the first time on CD, Vinyl Japan has made the reissue more attractive by adding a clutch of bonus tracks and 12-inch versions which, until now, have been hard for aficionados to track down.
--Johnny Black
Album Details
UK reissue of the 1984 & sole outing from one of the first post-punk bands to incorporate the use of acoustic instrumentation into their sound, which helped give them adistinctive style of well crafted, melodic pop. This UK version contains all nine cuts from the original release, plus 10 bonus tracks (previously only available on the Japanese edition), 'Out On Your Own' (12 Inch Version) & nine previously unreleased tracks from what would have been their second album, 'It Hurts', 'You Don't Need Someone New', 'Two Virgins Tender', 'My Happy Dream', 'The Evidence', 'Endless', 'Soul In Sparks', 'Church At Llanbadrig' & 'The Lotus Eaters'. 19 tracks total. The booklet features hand written lyrics to the original 10 tracks. 2001 Vinyl Japan release.