Fiction (The Comsat Angels album)

Fiction
Studio album by The Comsat Angels
Released 1982
Recorded May - June, 1982
Genre New wave, post-punk
Length 41:16 (LP)
Label Polydor, RPM Records, Renascent Records
Producer Peter Wilson, Comsat Angels
The Comsat Angels chronology

Sleep No More
(1981)		 Fiction
(1982)		 Land
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Stylus B[2]

Fiction was released in 1982 on Polydor Records. It was The Comsat Angels' third album. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM Records and in 2006 by Renascent Records, with different track listings (see below). The album peaked at #94 in the UK charts in September 1982.[3]

Fiction was less gloomy than the Comsats' previous album, Sleep No More. Frontman Steve Fellows said of the change: "I certainly didn't want to make another record as intense as Sleep No More — at least not immediately. Sleep No More was so dark that I felt it skewed things a bit — possibly even mentally for me. I just felt if we carried on in that direction it'd lead to madness or maybe even something worse."[4]

Fellows was satisfied with many of the songs on Fiction, including "What Else!?," "Pictures," and "After the Rain",[5] but felt that the album as a whole could have been better. "We were a bit short of tunes when we recorded it," he said. "We were touring quite a bit after Sleep No More and there wasn't as much time to write as I would have liked."[6]

Track listing (1982)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake

  1. After the Rain
  2. Zinger
  3. Now I Know
  4. Not a Word
  5. Ju Ju Money
  6. More
  7. Pictures
  8. Birdman
  9. Don't Look Now
  10. What Else!?

Track listing (1995)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake

  1. After the Rain
  2. Zinger
  3. Now I Know
  4. Not a Word
  5. Ju Ju Money
  6. More
  7. Pictures
  8. Birdman
  9. Don't Look Now
  10. What Else!?
  11. It's History
  12. After the Rain (remix)
  13. Private Party
  14. Mass

Track listing (2006)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake

  1. After the Rain
  2. Zinger
  3. Now I Know
  4. Not a Word
  5. Ju Ju Money
  6. More
  7. Pictures
  8. Birdman
  9. Don't Look Now
  10. What Else!?
  11. (Do the) Empty House
  12. Red Planet Revisited
  13. It's History
  14. Private Party
  15. For Your Information
  16. After The Rain (remix)
  17. (Do The) Empty House (live)
  18. What Else!? (live)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Stylus review
  3. ↑ Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of Fiction
  4. ↑ Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of Fiction
  5. ↑ Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of Fiction
  6. ↑ Liner notes from Renascent re-issue of Fiction