Collection, by Alcian Blue

Collection

by Alcian Blue

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Lars Gotrich Made the kind of blisteringly loud and heavy shoegaze that wouldn't become cool-kid approved until after they broke up. In Alcian Blue's ecstatic volume and noise, there swims a thunderous romance. buttondown.email/vikingschoice/archive/b33896f7-b144-468f-86e6-0bab5bd32f80 Favorite track: Everyday Is Fall.

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1.	Angelica Take Me Down - Single 03:08		buy track
2.	Channel (Beau Revere Mix) 05:49		buy track
3.	Euqapo 01:44		buy track
4.	Never Go Away 06:30		buy track
5.	Angelica Take Me Down 03:09		buy track
6.	Silvers Sleep Walk 06:00		buy track
7.	Everyday Is Fall 02:52		buy track
8.	Translucent 05:11		buy track
9.	Silvers Sleep Walk - Single 07:09		buy track
10.	Fall Behind - Live 04:32		buy track
11.	Everyday Is Fall - Live 03:04		buy track
12.	Joy 03:10	info	buy track
13.	Fall Behind - Single 04:26		buy track
14.	A Strange Day 04:25	info	buy track
15.	Fall Behind - Demo 05:17		buy track
16.	Darkest Days 06:29		buy track
17.	A Faded Smile 04:18		buy track
18.	Years Too Late 06:53		buy track
19.	Fall Behind - Alternate Take 05:01		buy track
20.	Spiral 08:37		buy track
21.	Carousel 07:47		buy track

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Anathemata Editions - AE018
Edition of 100 / 2xCS (c68 and c40) in Norelco brick packaging

Comes with digital download (Bandcamp)
Remastered and Designed by Jake Reid
With an essay by Oliver Ackerman (A Place to Bury Strangers / Death By Audio)

"Alcian Blue was one of the most incredible live bands that you probably never saw but if you had would have changed your life." - Oliver Ackerman (A Place to Bury Strangers / Death By Audio)

ALCIAN BLUE never received the attention they deserved. Starting in 1998, a few years too late for the original wave of shoegaze and ending in 2006, a few years too early for the newer wave. I first witnessed them playing shows together with my band Unlucky Atlas and was immediately smitten with their intensity; loud, psychedelic, punishing pop owing as much to the Cure as Jesus and Mary Chain - but heavier. Live they flooded the stage with projections and the room with high decibels. Of course that they weren't alone and along with their friends Skywave, (which formed Ceremony and A Place to Bury Strangers) they ushered in a period of intense noisy shoegaze. However, it was ALCIAN BLUE that made me think this kind of music still held vitality at that crucial point in time and could be simultaneously caustic and beautiful. (Terence)

Compiles five EPs: Fall Behind, Silvers Sleep Walk, Angelica Take Me Down, Translucent and Years Too Late

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released January 15, 2021

Alcian Blue Personnel:
Sam Chintha, Jake Reid, Clark Stacy, Matt Welch, Kim Reid

Collection EP remastered by Jake Reid with restoration and archival help from Sam Chintha and Greg Svitil

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Alcian Blue Washington, D.C.

Shoegaze from Takoma Park MD 1998-2006

Sam Chintha, Jake Reid, Clark Stacy, Matt Welch, Kim Reid (2004-2006)

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