RCA Records releases a significantly reworked edition of Australian group Pseudo Echo‘s album Love An Adventure in North America, adding the single “Funkytown” (a cover of the Lipps Inc. song). 
I’m embarassed to confess what got me to get this album on tape years ago. One word: “Funkytown”. Yes, this is the Australian group that did a cover of “Funkytown” around 1987 that went over fairly well. The rest of the album, though it’s thick with drum machine and synth sounds, is better than that song; truth be told, that song is now practically my least favorite. I was lucky to get a CD of this out-of-print album second-hand, so it may be very hard to get a hold of. The other single that I recall from this album is “Living In A Dream”, though the non-singles “Love An Adventure” and “Destination Unknown” are good ones as well. If you can handle the mid-80s electronic sound – and if you find early Depeche Mode palatable, you know what I’m talking about – you’ll like this.
- A Beat For You (3:39)
- Living in a Dream (3:29)
- Try (4:19)
- Listening (3:06)
- I Will Be You (5:20)
- Love an Adventure (4:17)
- Destination Unknown (4:59)
- Funkytown (4:53)
- Lonely Without You (4:34)
- Lies Are Nothing (3:57)
Released by: RCA Limited/Transworld
Release date: 1987
Total running time: 42:43
1992 music review by Earl Green