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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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December 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 194

The Big Dish, Prospect Street [Single] (1986) I know nothing about The Big Dish – apart from what I’ve just googled – and this single and b-side, which I’ve just listened to for the first time. Scottish band. And I can hear that instantly and line them up somewhere between Simple Minds and The Blue […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, A-side, B-side, EP, LP, Oscar, Prospect Street, Scotland, Simple Minds, Single, Something From Nothing, The Beatles, The Big Dish, The Blue Nile, The Chipmunks, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 194, Vinyl ·

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February 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Hearing The Last Album First: How I Arrived At The Blue Nile’s High

The first album by The Blue Nile that I really engaged with – got really hooked on – was the band’s (at this stage) last. High. I love that album. I really dig A Walk Across The Rooftops (see here for my Vinyl Countdown story about that – even though it’s really about High also) […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Walk Across The Rooftops, Hats, Hearing The Last Album First, Hearing The Last Album First: How I Arrived At The Blue Nile's High, High, How I Arrived At The Blue Nile's High, Peace At Last, The Blue Nile ·

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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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February 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Majical Cloudz: Impersonator

Majical Cloudz Impersonator Matador It’s a wide-open sound for Majical Cloudz on Impersonator, where the duo goes from here is anyone’s guess but there’s a lovely – stately – feel to the songs on this their sophomore full-lengther, This Is Magic feeling like a torch song, but free of the faux spirit that the James […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, High, Impersonator, Majical Cloudz, The Blue Nile ·

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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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June 23, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1955

The Blue Nile, A Walk Across The Rooftops (1984) My introduction to The Blue Nile was actually High, the last album (at this stage) the band has released. I love that album – and as soon as I started telling people how great it was I received many pointers that the band’s earlier work was […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged A Walk Across The Rooftops, Hats, High, Stay, The Blue Nile, Tinseltown In The Rain, Vinyl ·

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