The Blue Nile - Hats (1989)
Lounge, College Rock
Catalog: LKHCD02 | Lossless | EAC Rip | FLAC + CUE + LOG | 38:45 | 234 Mb | No scans.
Tracklisting:
01 Over the Hillside (5:03)
02 The Downtown Lights (6:26)
03 Let's Go Out Tonight (5:12)
04 Headlights on the Parade (6:11)
05 From a Late Night Train (3:59)
06 Seven A.M. (5:09)
07 Saturday Night (6:26)
Five long years in the making, the Blue Nile's stellar Hats was well worth the wait; sweeping and majestic, it's a triumph of personal vision over the cold, remote calculations of technology. While created almost solely without benefit of live instruments, it is nevertheless an immensely warm and human album; Paul Buchanan's plaintive vocals and poignant songs are uncommonly moving, and his deployment of lush synth washes and electronic percussion is never gratuitous, each song instead crafted with painterly precision. Impressionistic and shimmering, tracks like "The Downtown Lights" and "From a Late Night Train" are perfectly evocative of their titles: Rich in romantic atmosphere and detail, they conjure a nocturnal fantasy world lit by neon and shrouded in fog, leaving Hats an intensely cinematic experience as well as a masterpiece of musical obsession.
Review, All Music Guide
EAC Log
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 8. February 2008, 15:41
The Blue Nile / Hats
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Range status and errors
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Filename C:\Burn\The Blue Nile - Hats.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
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Copy CRC 37D1B10B
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No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
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