According to the book, being a fan of Blue Nile requires only patience. The albums are all pretty similar but it takes them at least 5 years between releases. Apparently even in being offered a recording deal it took them several months to come back with an answer for their record company.
There was a persistent story that the band had been commissioned to make an album by a company wanting to show off their hi-fi equipment and that the recording so impressed the company that they formed a record label to release the album. Apparently though that is not true and the company had already released one or two things already; but it makes for a nice story.
The sound of this album is reminiscent of a few other artists of this era, in that these are essentially soulful pop songs but just steeped in instrumentation and production techniques of the 80s that maybe make them cleaner and colder than they want to be. I liked it well enough.
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