The Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin [1984]

Refreshing (and totally cynicism-free) collection of songs celebrating innocent pleasures. The Lotus Eaters were a Liverpudlian duo who scored one UK hit with the summer anthem "The First Picture Of You" and then released this album to cash in.

Most of the album has the same freshness as the single - surging melodies worthy of a 60s girl group mark "You Don't Need Someone New" and "German Girl". This is just as well as, to a cynic like me, the lyrics are frequently hilariously earnest. These are clearly people who have never thought anything bad about anyone.

If you can stomach the unabashed romanticism, this is actually a lovely record.

Tracklisting:

01 German Girl
02 Love Still Flows
03 Can You Keep A Secret
04 Out On Your Own
05 Put Your Touch On Love
06 Set Me Apart
07 You Fill Me With Need
08 The First Picture Of You
09 Alone Of All Her Sex
10 It Hurts
11 You Don't Need Someone New
12 Two Virgins Tender
13 My Happy Dream
14 The Evidence
15 Endless
16 Soul In Sparks
17 Church At Llanbadrig
18 The Lotus Eaters
19 Out On Your Own (12" Version)