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2/24/26

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The Blue Nile has always been something of a mystery. While its records are unfailingly critically acclaimed, as well as lauded by their peers to an almost unusual degree, the Scottish trio never hit the public sphere with the same impact it did certain nerdy music circles. Though possessor of a distinctive sound that carries easy appeal, the Scottish trio doesn’t make it easy for potential fans.

Released in 1989, Hats, the band’s much-acclaimed second LP, makes the strongest case for its idiosyncratic approach. The album begins with a one-two punch that essentially lays out what the Blue Nile’s music is all about. “Over the Hillside” and “The Downtown Lights” take the U.K.’s distinctive vision of blue-eyed soul and roll it out like a skein of yarn, stretching it across a loom and weaving its various strands into a colorful tapestry of pretty sounds and almost subliminal rhythms. Bell and Moore’s electronic soundscapes have as much in common with post-rock as pop music, as if the pair was as stunned by Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden – released the year before – as everyone else. Buchanan wraps his velvet pipes around lyrics that sing around the idea of love more than of it, his sentiments propelled by his soulful phrasing more than their meaning on paper. These two tracks are quintessential Blue Nile tunes, mysterious in context but luminous in execution.