ORIGINALLY:

 

All four songs were initially non-album tracks.

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NOTES:

Hard Facts From the Fiction Department is a 4 track EP of instrumentals issued on the Cocteau Records label. This was the fifth in the series of Cocteau Club EPs issued to fan club members, included in Issue #9 of the club magazine, Acquitted By Mirrors. All four tracks had been recorded at The Echo Observatory.


PAST RELEASES:

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A1) was later included on the 7" and 12" releases of the Acceleration single (see separate entry), and The Two Fold Aspect of Everything comp (out of print).
A2) was later included on the US 2CD version of The Two Fold Aspect of Everything comp (Enigma, 1989), which is also out of print.

 

CURRENT AVAILABILITY:

All tracks are available on the retrospective compilation album Transcorder (The Acquitted By Mirrors Recordings).

BILL'S THOUGHTS:

From the Acquitted by Mirrors fan magazine:

"With this magazine you will find included the first of the club EPs. "Hard Facts from the Fiction Department" was recorded in the autumn of 1983 for the BBC as part of a programme about the Orwellian 1984. The remaining three pieces come from the instrumental archives of the Echo Observatory."

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