Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gordon Zacharias was living in Boston in the early ‘90s, quietly building the insular sound world that would incubate his songs as Fan Modine. Recording in an industrial loft space downtown, he meticulously crafted songs on a hybrid set up that included both analog cassette four track and digital multi-tracking technology. Playing all of the instruments, Zacharias first conceived this music as the soundtrack to a film he was working towards about the adventures of traveling American pop star Fandemian Kirk Modine. The film never came to be, but the would-be soundtrack was the beginning of a band that would crystalize in the form of eleven homespun but meticulously crafted songs of understated pop magic.