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Oct 17, 2019 · The Blue Nile’s career defies narrative. Like the music, the story itself is all ellipses. Yet as much as they favored gestures and leaving things not-totally-said, their albums remain complete ...
Jan 7, 2018 · While their influence has long run deep, with outspoken fans including Vashti Bunyan, Phil Collins, and the 1975, to this day nothing sounds quite like Hats. The Blue Nile themselves never quite ...
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The Blue Nile – Hats, 1989. To celebrate Listen To This’s 200 album anniversary, I wanted to share a record that feels too big to share on any other day. I mean “big” both in the canonical sense and in terms of its size and weight. The Blue Nile’s Hats is, for many, an all-time favorite and a regular aesthetic reference point, and yet ...
Apr 18, 2024 · “The Downtown Lights” is the leadoff single from 1989’s Hats, The Blue Nile’s second album, and quite possibly the most perfect song they ever recorded.
- Stewart Mason
Sep 24, 2022 · Paul Joseph Moore was one-third of the Blue Nile and, as keyboard player and synthesiser maven, a key architect of their stately, elegant, widescreen sound. But he rarely listens to Hats now. The ...
Hats (album) Hats. (album) Hats is the second studio album by Scottish band the Blue Nile, originally released on 16 October 1989 on Linn Records and A&M Records . After a prolonged delay in which an entire album's worth of work was scrapped, the Blue Nile released Hats to rave reviews, including a rare five-star rating from Q magazine.
Nov 10, 2019 · Hats reached #12 on the UK charts, a strong result after A Walk Across the Rooftops only made it to #80. Most Blue Nile fans favour the band’s first two albums. 1996’s Peace At Last went in a different direction, with more acoustic guitar and Christian lyrics, while 2004’s High returned to the group’s usual atmospheric style with slightly diminished returns.
