After a five year hiatus, the Blue Nile are rereleasing their three albums “A Walk Across The Rooftops”, “High” & “Peace At Last” as 1000 limited edition copies on 180 gram weighted vinyl.
All three albums have been remastered by Calum Malcolm during the summer of
2019.
It was only once the smoke had cleared from the early 1980s explosion of
Scottish indie (Simple Minds, Orange Juice, The Associates) that Glasgow band
The Blue Nile finally made their quiet but formidable emergence. A Walk Across
The Rooftops is one of the most exquisitely orchestrated pop albums ever made, a
timeless, finely detailed arrangement of funky bass, delicate strings and synth
flourishes, not least on the title track. “Tinseltown In The
Rain”s dark-hued musical watercolours and flashes of light and shade paint a
vivid picture of the city at night–coupled with Paul Buchanan’s wistfully
romantic lyrics, this album
captures with almost cinematic resonance late evening walks along deserted,
neon-lit puddled streets turning over thoughts in your mind of a loved one.
Broody, bittersweet and wonderful. –David Stubbs