Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Ashes in the Brittle Air (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1988/2020)

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Artist: Black Tape For A Blue Girl
Title: Ashes in the Brittle Air (Remastered Expanded Edition)
Year Of Release: 1988/2020
Label: Projekt Records
Genre: Darkwave, Gothic, Ambient
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:56:21
Total Size: 279 mb | 659 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1

01. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Ashes in the Brittle Air (2020 Remastered)
02. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (2020 Remastered)
03. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Touch and the Darkness (2020 Remastered)
04. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Through Sky Blue Rooms (2020 Remastered)
05. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Scar of a Poet (2020 Remastered)
06. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - You Tangle Within Me (2020 Remastered)
07. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - From the Tightrope (2020 Remastered)
08. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Am I So Deceived (2020 Remastered)
09. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Is It Love That Dare Not Be- (2020 Remastered)
10. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I Ran to You (2020 Remastered)
11. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I Wish You Could Smile (2020 Remastered)

CD2

01. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Let the Rain Fall
02. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Milan
03. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Sound of Waves
04. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I’m Spinning
05. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Griffith Park
06. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Ashes In The Brittle Air (Acapella)
07. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I’m Spinning (Demo)
08. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Amber Girl (Through Sky Blue Rooms Version)
09. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Through Sky Blue Rooms (In Between Mix)
10. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Through Sky Blue Rooms (Alternate Version)
11. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Ashes In The Brittle Air (Demo)
12. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - We Return
13. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I’m Spinning (Acapella)
14. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Scar of a Poet (Demo)
15. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - From the Tightrope (Demo)
16. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Our Flesh As One (Demo)
17. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Am I So Deceived (Demo)
18. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (1987 Demo)
19. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (1988 demo)
20. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (Acapella)
21. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (2020 mix)

Black Tape's third full album takes the band to a new level of grace; while bandleader Rosenthal's work remains generally consistent - ambient soundscapes mingled with low-key rock mood pieces, backing Rosenthal's varying studies of romantic obsession and fragmentation - the various performances here are more involving than ever. Herrera and Kenny-Smith return as the major vocalists, along with Rosenthal himself on 'slight vocals' and electronics; a bevy of other guest performances flesh out the album as a whole, from guitars to clarinet and violin. The opening title track proved to be the best Black Tape song up to that point, starting with a gentle wash of electronics suddenly punctuated by a tribal percussion hit - wonderfully echoed and layered for atmosphere - and Kenny-Smith's delicate take on the lyrics. Herrera himself gets to shine in the very next number, "Across A Thousand Blades," one of the more overtly goth-rock numbers Black Tape has recorded, with a pulsing rhythm, Cure/Banshees-like guitar and fretless bass adding to Herrera's anguished performance. The rest of the album doesn't quite match up to such an excellent beginning, but as a consistent collection of songs and performances, Ashes is never anything less that tastefully atmospheric, and often more than that, a perfect soundtrack to a late night.

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