Amazon.co.uk Review
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