High
release date: Aug. 30, 2004
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
[3,98]
producer: The Blue Nile
label: Sanctuary Records - nationality: Scotland, UK
Track highlights:
1.
"The Days of Our Lives" -
2. "I Would Never" (4 / 5 ) -
3. "Broken Loves" (5 / 5) -
4.
"Because of Toledo" -
5. "She Saw the World" (4 / 5) -
6.
"High" -
7.
"Soul Boy" -
9.
"Stay Close"
4th and so far final studio album by The Blue Nile released 8 years after the previous album. After the least successful album to date, the band left Warner Bros., and this album is released on the smaller Sanctuary Records (sublabel of BMG). It's like a return to their old style, just updated with a better production and skilful use of electronic.
"Broken Loves" is such a fabulous track, and the album is highly recommendable.
Since this, the band has kept quiet. Paul Buchanan, however, released his fine solo debut album
Mid Air in 2012.
[
allmusic.com 3,5 / 5,
The Guardian 4 / 5 stars ]
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"Broken Loves"
"I feel exactly like a matchstick in relation to you
Thin and broken.
And nothing I can seem - There's Nothing I can seem to do
Make you switch the TV off - To Make you switch the TV off
And look up - Oh look up
Look up
Sail away
Sailing away from me also
I count your sticks and all your toys
You're laughing in the background noise
We won't give up
I'm going to give you something else
That's some kind of broken words
Children swing, to and fro
Do you ever wonder
Where did the summer go?
Counting The TV's and counting the stars
It's so unfunny I don't know where you are anymore
I don't know where you are anymore
Sail away
Sail on back to me envy
I count your sticks and all your toys
Your laughter in the background noise
Please don't give up
I am gonna promise you something else
Not some kind of broken loves
Sail away
Sail on back to me and then (yeah yeah)
I'll keep your sticks and all your toys
I'll keep you in the background noise
Yeah we don't give up
And I am gonna find you something else
Not some kind of broken loves"
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