Fiction Tales

Have you ever been looking for that one gem of an album while flicking through crate upon crate of dead vinyl? Yeah? Well, flick no more because you’ve found that one gem, that moment when you slip the 38 year old beloved black disc out from its sleeve and it’s pristine, not even a hairline scuff. Hold your breath because this vinyl rip is outstanding. Modern Eon were one of the many new wave Liverpool bands that should be better known. Echo & The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes are firm family favourites, from across the North of England bands like The Comsat Angels and The Chameleons…but hardly anyone knows Modern Eon. With a handful of singles and one album to their name it’s really not surprising that they’re not well known. Their blend of paranoid dreamy vocals and strange synth shapes supported by some creative bass and rather tired, but right on trend for 1980, drums generates an overall cold feeling to the album. This is Post Punk at its best with a band trying to find their way in a mine field where many have tread and failed before. Listen out for Euthenics.