The Blue Nile- A Walk Across The Rooftops (Side A)

Описание: The Blue Nile
A Walk Across The Rooftops (Side A)
Released: 30 April 1984
Recorded: 1981–1983



A1 A Walk Across The Rooftops 0:00
A2 Tinseltown In The Rain 4:32
A3 From Rags To Riches 10:24




A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 April 1984 on Linn Records in the UK and on A&M Records in the US. Although the album was released to little fanfare and was not a big hit on its initial release, it slowly accumulated fans and sales through word of mouth as the years passed, and by the time the follow-up Hats was released in 1989, A Walk Across the Rooftops had sold 80,000 copies.
It continued to gather praise when reissued in 2012, and in 2015, was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the United Kingdom, indicating sales in excess of 60,000 copies.
Contemporary reception
A Walk Across the Rooftops received great acclaim from the UK music press on its release in 1984. In a five-star review Sounds said, "Their music cuts a deep swathe right through the centre of blond-streaked wimpdom, without stance or calculation ... For the first time in a long time, they make you care. Melody Maker proclaimed, "The Blue Nile's stunning debut album seduces the emotions as well as the senses, and instead of fighting its effect, the sensible thing to do is relax and enjoy it ... There's a mesmeric quality in this music that makes you want to savour every track with the respectful appreciation of a connoisseur. Like a good book you don't want it to end, but when it does that thrilling potency loses nothing in repetition ... A Walk Across the Rooftops generates a rarefied atmosphere that's a comfort to the soul. If this is just a sampler of The Blue Nile's catalogue, then we're in for a whole new chapter in delight." Smash Hits' Ian Cranna stated that The Blue Nile with their debut album went "Straight into a league of their own": "The songs are superb — imagery at its best (each song a perfect capsule), sung with passion and a touch of weary melancholy over inventive, modern arrangements". NME described the album as "music to shade your dreamtime in subtle colours, a quiet influence, delicious persuasion ... It's difficult to describe (often a good sign), without too many specific features to pick upon. It's easier to suggest the moods it evokes: romance, doubt, a rich sadness. The keynote is restraint; far from straining for effort, The Blue Nile allow their music to find its own atmospheres ... To correct any misunderstanding: what The Blue Nile are not is, say, wispy or precious. There's red meat in this music, and a human pulse beat. The beauty is unassuming, the intelligence is uncontrived. It's good news. Great music is still being made."






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