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Blue Nile albums only come around at an average of about twice every 10 years, so each one is greeted with a wealth of anticipation and reverence. This was no less true for the Scottish trio's fourth album, HIGH. Following the group's chronological line of progression, HIGH is most akin to its predecessor, 1996's PEACE AT LAST. The striking angularity of the band's first two records is supplanted by a more organic sound, with singer/songwriter Paul Buchanan's passionate, soulful voice as the main focus. Blue Nile's trademark lush production style is in evidence, as twinkling keyboards and acoustic guitars provide a starlit background for Buchanan's emotional journeys. More than ever, here the group moves closer to a blue-eyed-soul sound, with Buchanan belting out simple (but never simplistic) romantic lyrics over the kind of mid-tempo programmed beats and velvety synthesizers that wouldn't sound out of place in a slow-jam R&B mix.
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Personnel: Paul Buchanan, Paul Joseph Moore , Robert Bell.
Entertainment Weekly (p.81) - "[T]he music remains the same: crystalline midtempo soundscapes in which regret and ecstasy twine into a spiritual double helix." - Grade: A
Uncut (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[F]illed with the same surging, oblique melancholy and longing that has sustained The Blue Nile since 1984..."
Uncut (p.74) - Ranked #27 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[B]oth cerebral and sentimental....They inspire devotion because they feel it like few others."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[M]usic of great subtlety, their oddly humane drum-machines, evocative synthesizers and clean Fenders lent extra class by Paul Buchanan's plaintive, ever-more-soulful howl." Purchase High CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blue Nile Hats CD (1989)
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Finding a category into which the critics can slot them has been a problem for this excellent Scottish ...
| | Blue Nile Walk Across The Rooftops CD (1984) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Porcupine Tree In Absentia CD (2002)
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There's a breed of (post-1980s) bands with the same degree of grand rock experimentalism as Pink Floyd and Yes, who simultaneously adhere to the concept of concise songwriting. Porcupine Tree is one such band--their sound is a balance of lush ambient textures, charming vocal harmonies, rock & roll directness, and acoustically- and electronically-generated sounds. Their debut IN ABSENTIA shows all these elements in place, rich with the likely possibility of them becoming a contemporary counterpart to Pink Floyd.
Hailed by Billboard as 'cinematic...simple gorgeous', Porcupine Tree are unquestionably ...
| | Franz Ferdinand CD (2004)
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The centerpiece is "Take Me Out" (a U.K. top ten hit), which plays out a series of come-ons between rival assassins, over what begins as a sneering slice of mid-1990s Britpop, only to morph into a funky dance-floor tune. Kapranos is often quoted as saying that the band was started in order to "make music that girls can dance to," but this unusually assured debut is quite likely to affect discriminating boys in exactly the same way.
On their self-titled ...
| | Brian Eno Another Green World CD (1975) Remastered
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It was here that Eno first began to experiment with abstract soundscapes, to employ a greater ...
| | Kate Bush Aerial CDs (2005)
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Since the 1980s Kate Bush has shouldered the unhappy burden of having to live up to her own brilliance: albums like THE DREAMING and HOUNDS OF LOVE set a high watermark for shimmering, adventurous, off-kilter pop. In the 12 years that transpired between the releases of 1993's THE RED SHOES and 2005's AERIAL, expectations ran high that Bush had something monumental in store. AERIAL does not necessarily meet those expectations, but that is not to imply that it's a lackluster release either.
A double-disc set that encompasses a collection of songs about domesticity (the first disc, A SEA OF HONEY) and a conceptual suite that ...
| | Cath Carroll True Crime Motel CD (1995)
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| | Flamin Groovies Flamin' Groovies Now CD (1978)
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While it took a long and torturous five years for the Flamin' Groovies to find their way back to an American record deal with Shake Some Action, a year and a half later the band had a follow-up ready, and while 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now isn't quite as cohesive as the album that preceded it, in many respects the band sounds at once tighter and more relaxed, with some time on the road firming up the rhythm section while giving the songs a bit more room to swing (which wasn't one of the strong suits of the British Invasion bands that provided their aural template). The band lost guitarist James Ferrell during the post-Shake Some Action tour, but former Charlatans picker Mike Wilhelm proved to be a more than simpatico replacement on these sessions, and while leader Cyril Jordan didn't come up with another new song as transcendent as "Shake Some Action," "All I Wanted" comes pretty close. ...
| | Latif Bolat Gul: The Rose CD (2005)
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| | Leadbelly Goodnight Irene: The Best Of CD (2005)
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| | Frantic Flintstones Legendary Mushroom Sessions CD (2005) (Import) United Kingdom
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The Legendary Mushroom Sessions are the end result of precisely what the title promises -- a six-month-long sojourn at the Opium Den studios, during which Frantic Flintstones' frontman Chuck Harvey's newly coined Magic Mushroom Band side project feasted on their namesakes and recorded whatever came to mind. It could have been a disaster and, in many ways, it was. Certainly the original tapes were never released, and might even have been lost forever had Cherry Red not purchased the old Link Records catalog and, after "much digging and legal maneuvering," finally unearthed the tapes. Add the bandmembers' own delight at the possibility of finally allowing the sessions to see daylight, and the results are here for all to marvel at. Marvel, and wonder just how the Flintstones' traditional constituency ...
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