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The Blue Nile
Hats
Release Date: 1989 10 zz
Running Time: 38:26
Label: A&M

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. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Over the Hillside	Buchanan	5:05
2	Downtown Lights	Buchanan	6:29
3	Let's Go Out Tonight	Buchanan	5:16
4	Headlights on the Parade	Buchanan	6:16
5	From a Late Night Train	Buchanan	4:01
6	Seven A.M.	Buchanan	5:09
7	Saturday Night	Buchanan	6:27