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Castlesound Studios where the previous album had been produced. However, sessions for the new record hit problems almost immediately. The band did not yet have enough material to make another album, and with the group forced to share a house and having to spend all their time in close
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magazine in 2013. "Living away from home, no money, miserable, getting sued. We were absolutely zonked, the record company weren't pleased and everyone around was starting to think, this record is never going to get made. It was exhausting."
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complimented the band's use of instrumentation to convey emotions, but felt that Paul
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and provided a "pretty unrelenting opportunity to really wallow in gorgeous, sublime, melancholy." Reviewing the remastered versions of both albums in
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music, that leaves you feeling very small, very still and very close to tears." In a more lukewarm assessment, David
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to rave reviews, including a rare five-star rating from
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Thomson, Graeme (January 2013). "Late Night Music...".
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McNair, James (January 2013). "Still waters run deep".
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in North America—took out a full-page advertisement in
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Thomson, Graeme (January 2013). "River of No Return".
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Having finished promotion work for their debut album
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with Larry Saltzman, Steve Gaboury and Nigel Thomas)
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2018:. London. 23–30 December 1989. pp. 60–61.
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1977:. No. 188. London. p. 59.
1950:(14 October 1989). "The Blue Nile:
1429:Tavakoli, Mina (20 November 2020).
1404:Remastered 2CD collector's edition
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1991:(7 October 1989). "The Blue Nile:
1872:. No. 37. London. p. 91.
1814:(7 October 1989). "Hattie Japes".
1620:Edwards, D. M. (31 January 2013).
1591:Murray, Robin (20 November 2012).
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1457:Crockford, J.M. (20 June 2018).
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