{"product_id":"black-tape-for-a-blu-ashes-in-the-brittle-air-lp-61702603761","title":"Black Tape for a Blu - Ashes in the Brittle Air [Limited Edition] (OFGV) [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemastered expanded edition. Remastered from original 1\/4\"?tapes. CD contains 21 bonus tracks: demos, acapella, plus 6 complete songs that have never been heard before. Their goth hit \"Across a thousand blades\" plus a new 2020 mix. LP contains 11-track remastered album. 2CD at a single-CD price. Black Tape for a Blue Girl's 1989 third album in an expanded edition. Remastered from the original 1\/4-inch analog tapes, it sounds amazing! Sue and Oscar's vocals are much more present, the instruments are clear, yet the eleven tracks retain that dreamy, romantic quality you remember from the 80s. Ashes contains angst and trepidation in the lyrics yet also beauty and hopeful melancholia in the mood and music. It's an album of existential, ethereal, and gothic musings. Ashes was the release that brought the band out of the fanzine-based underground - \"Across a thousand blades\" on CMJ's Certain Damage 16 compilation CD garnered regular airplay nationwide. In fact, many fans mention Ashes was their first exposure to the music of Black Tape for a Blue Girl. The CD's 21 bonus tracks contain demos, acapella versions, plus six complete songs that have never been heard before. The first 5 comprise the unreleased The sound of waves ep - they've been mixed with modern equipment to sound the way songwriter\/band-leader Sam Rosenthal imagined in '88. Finishing out the bonus material is the 2020 mix of \"Across a thousand blades.\"?Sam went back to the 1\/2-inch analog 8-track tape and used only original 1988 vocals\/instruments to create the definitive version of their popular goth-rock song.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAshes in the Brittle Air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross a Thousand Blades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Touch and the Darkness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough Sky Blue Rooms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Scar of a Poet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Tangle Within Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Tightrope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAm I So Deceived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs It Love That Dare Not Be? 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Ran to You 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Wish You Could Smile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026amp;#xFEFF;let The Rain Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026amp;#xFEFF;the Sound Of Waves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026amp;#xFEFF;i\u0026amp;rsquo;m Spinning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026amp;#xFEFF;griffith Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAshes In The Brittle Air (Acapella)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI\u0026amp;rsquo;m Spinning (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Amber Girl (Through Sky Blue Rooms Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough Sky Blue Rooms (In Between Mix)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough Sky Blue Rooms (Alternate Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAshes In The Brittle Air (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Return\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI\u0026amp;rsquo;m Spinning (Acapella)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Scar Of A Poet (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom The Tightrope (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Flesh As One (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAm I So Deceived (Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross A Thousand Blades (1987 Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross A Thousand Blades (1988 Demo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross A Thousand Blades (Acapella)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross A Thousand Blades (2020 Mix)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"206","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50557184114984,"sku":"61702603761","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/3768727-2732415.jpg?v=1763982129","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/black-tape-for-a-blu-ashes-in-the-brittle-air-lp-61702603761","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}