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February 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Weather Station: Ignorance

The Weather Station Ignorance Fat Possum You can make a serious album about serious issues that has groove, that has soul, that has not only heart but has actual art to it. It’s been done. Many times – and it always feels like a subtle magic trick. A few years ago Tracey Thorn did so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Annie Lennox, Ignorance, Paul Buchanan, Portishead, Talk Talk, Tamara Lindeman, The Blue Nile, The Weather Station, The Weather Station: Ignorance, Tracey Thorn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 13 – Evening Mope

The weekend is here, I’m late with the five songs so this one can be an evening edition, songs for your Friday night rather than for your Friday – it’s been a great week, mostly. Lots of good podcast stuff happening, gathering interviews, lining up a few more, interviewing and editing…all very good. And then […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 13, Bob Dylan, Chris Cornell, Daddy Needs A Drink, Drive-By Truckers, Evening, Evening Mope, Five Songs, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 13, Five Songs For Friday: # 13 – Evening Edition, Five Songs For Friday: # 13 – Evening Mope, Friday, John Martyn, Paul Buchanan, Small Hours, Wedding Party, Went To See The Gypsy, When I'm Down ·

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October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

When It’s About More Than Just The Music: Remembering Interviewing Paul Buchanan

Sometimes, with music, part of the magic, the connection, is in the memory. And part of the memory is in the things that were happening around the music. I had loved the music of The Blue Nile since I first heard it. And the band’s last album, High, is the one that means the most […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Hats, High, Mid Air, Paul Buchanan, Remembering Interviewing Paul Buchanan, The Blue Nile, The Paul Buchanan Interview, When It's About More Than Just The Music, When It's About More Than Just The Music: Remembering Interviewing Paul Buchanan ·

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February 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Craig Armstrong: It’s Nearly Tomorrow

Craig Armstrong It’s Nearly Tomorrow BMG Across the 90s and early 2000s Craig Armstrong’s music was everywhere, those hypnotic, enchanting arrangements that helped to frame the majesty of Massive Attack’s finest works, the symphonic sweep meeting up with trip-hop to create those alluring movie soundtrack moments, there were a couple of production albums outside of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Chris Botti, Craig Armstrong, Film Scores, It's Nearly Tomorrow, Mid Air, Movie Scores, Paul Buchanan, The Blue Nile ·

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September 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lewis: L’Amour

Lewis L’Amour Light In The Attic Musically it’s so simple – sparse, proud, strange – a few synth lines stab in and around some late-night piano fumbling, a soft coo of a voice. No drums. No bass. It’s perfect at midnight or 3am or 6am – and it’s so perfect here, now, some 30 years […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1983, 2014, Album Review, Blue Nile, John Martyn, L'Amour, Lewis, Light In The Attic, Paul Buchanan, Randall Wulff, Reissue ·

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September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Dean Blunt: The Redeemer

Dean Blunt The Redeemer Redeye Label Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland have collaborated under many pseudonyms – including as Hype Williams – but The Redeemer, though it features Copeland on a couple of tracks – is a severing of ties; a break-up album – well, a concept album about the breaking down of a relationship. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Dean Blunt, Hype Williams, Inga Copeland, Paul Buchanan, The Redeemer ·

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July 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Blue Nile: Hats (Reissue)

The Blue Nile Hats (Reissue) EMI I’ve fallen for Hats, the second Blue Nile Album, just recently in fact. Good timing given the new 2CD reissue. Before that it was all about A Walk Across The Rooftops (also reissued recently) and High (the one so many forgot about because, ultimately, Peace At Last was a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2CD, A Walk Across The Rooftops, Album Review, EMI, Hats, High, Morose, Paul Buchanan, Peace At Last, Pop, Reissue, The Blue Nile ·

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November 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1502

Paul Buchanan, Mid Air (2012) I spoke about the title song when I was interviewed by Kim Hill recently for Playing Favourites. It feels like a song that’s always existed – one that Buchanan plucked down, hanging on to it for just long enough. A butterfly he cradled in his hands then released to the world […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Mid Air, Paul Buchanan, The Blue Nile, Two Children ·

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