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The Blue Nile

High - 2019 Reissue

    To complete their reissue programme The Blue Nile again worked alongside long term producer/engineer partner Calum Malcolm.

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    Patrick says: Scotland’s kings of sophisti-pop complete their reissue series with 2004’s ‘High’, an album which found a heartbroken Paul Buchanan once again staring at city lights through rain soaked windows. As emotive and immersive as any of their early work, this is well worth a first time on vinyl and expanded CD release.

    TRACK LISTING

    CD TRACKS
    Disc 1:
    The Days Of Our Lives
    I Would Never
    Broken Loves
    Because Of Toledo
    She Saw The World
    High
    Soul Boy
    Everybody Else
    Stay Close

    Disc 2:
    Wasted
    The Days Of Our Lives. Remix
    She Saw The World. Remix
    I
    Big Town
    Here Come The Bluebirds

    LP TRACKS
    The Days Of Our Lives
    I Would Never
    Broken Loves
    Because Of Toledo
    She Saw The World
    High
    Soul Boy
    Everybody Else
    Stay Close

    The Blue Nile

    Hats - 2019 Reissue

      "Hats", the second LP from Scotland's foremost synth pop romantics hit the shelves in 1989, a full six years after their debut. In the interim the band had scrapped an album's worth of material, seen personal and professional relationships strain until breaking point and become tormented by the brilliance of their first album. Once again, the subject matter is love, but this time the melancholy is turned up to 11, as we take in the drizzle soaked city through the window of the cab taking us from one relationship to the next. Love, loss and loneliness, rendered in sublime sonic detail by Britain's most unsung heroes. The audio equivalent of film noir, and arguably the most realistic depiction of the arc of an affair, this album's most lasting legacy is that it is somehow better than their first...

      TRACK LISTING

      Over The Hillside
      The Downtown Lights
      Let's Go Out Tonight
      Headlights On The Parade
      From A Late Night Train
      Seven A.M.
      Saturday Night

      The Blue Nile

      A Walk Across The Roof Tops - 2019 Reissue

        Plagued by perceived inaccessibilty and that unfortunate condition of being too pop for the underground, but way too weird for the pop charts, The Blue Nile have never taken up position as Britain's greatest band - and this despite releasing the best single of all time, which you'll find here on their wonderful debut LP. Released by Linn Records (of synth drum fame) and thus recorded with a clarity and quality still unrivalled in music, "A Walk Across The Rooftops" strolls between art rock, synth pop and the avant garde, weaving an appreciation for Reich-style minimalism, downtown experiments and stadium sized melodies into seven masterful tracks. Along with the avant-pop of the titular opener, the A-side features the aforementioned "Tinseltown In The Rain" (AKA greatest single of all time) a soaring, sumptuous bit of 80s wave-pop and the downbeat delicacy of "From Rags To Riches". On the B-side, the emotional pop of "Stay" leads into the eerie "Easter Parade" before drifting fourth world jam and Balearic favourite "Heatwave" offers a "Tin-Drum" style late album masterpiece. The minimal wave "Automobile Noise" closes the set in weird and wistful fashion, and then it's time to play the whole thing through again...

        TRACK LISTING

        A Walk Across The Rooftops
        Tinseltown In The Rain
        From Rags To Riches
        Stay
        Easter Parade
        Heatwave
        Automobile Noise

        The Blue Nile

        Peace At Last - 2019 Reissue

          Pop careerists might be excused for regarding The Blue Nile, the Scottish pop trio helmed by singer and songwriter Paul Buchanan, as suicidal: In a business where timing is all, the Nile have managed to squeeze out just three albums in 15 years, supported by only two major concert tours. Why, then, should we care about their music? The answer lies in their deeply emotional, often epic albums, which have made them darlings among a cult as noteworthy for its high-profile peer membership as for its evanescence.

          Buchanan is a brilliant writer and singer who can channel Sinatra's elegant aloofness and Al Green's ecstatic whisper while remaining staunchly rooted in his Scottish identity, and his songs trade in the mundane details of daily life while reaching for epic scale in their emotional settings. Peace At Last juxtaposes pop splendour and soulful grit in a unique and powerful mix that extends from their two earlier classics. The trio's lustrous synthesized orchestrations and clipped, largely mid-tempo grooves give Buchanan's reveries an expansive sweep that only makes sense after you've heard it. --Sam Sutherland

          TRACK LISTING

          Happiness
          Tomorrow Morning
          Sentimental Man
          Love Came Down
          Body And Soul
          Holy Love
          Family Life
          War Is Love
          God Bless You Kid
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