PAUL BUCHANAN - Mid Air (10th Anniv. Expanded Ed.) - 2LP - 180g Vinyl

2LP - 180g Vinyl with 20 page lyric booklet.

'Mid Air' is an extraordinarily intimate record, its spare piano and vocal-based arrangements unfurling at a meditative pace. Paul Buchanan's beautifully bruised voice remains a faithful conduit of all things emotive, and Mid Air was written from a place of humility and wee-small-hours contemplation.

Says Paul: "I think if I'd tried to make a record that sounds like the band I'd be quite nervous, but this is more of a record-ette. it's quite small in stature and the songs are very brief, but don't get me wrong - it kept me awake at night." Buchanan also concedes that, in some ways, he is "continually re-writing the same song", chipping away at the themes that have absorbed him from day one. 'Far above the chimney tops / take me where the bus don't stop" he sings here on my true country. Naturally, such starry-eyed sentiments will chime with fans of the Blue Nile's charmed 1983 debut, 'A Walk Across The Rooftops'. at root, these beautifully smudged miniatures represent a still more potent distillation of all that has made Buchanan's past work so special. 'Mid Air' - his little 'record-ette' as he calls it - is wonderfully big of heart.

Tracklist:

1. Mid Air
2. Half The World
3. Cars In The Garden
4. Newsroom
5. I Remember You
6. Buy A Motor Car
7. Wedding Party
8. Two Children
9. Summer’s On It’s Way
10. My True Country
11. Movie Magazine
12. Tuesday
13. Fin De Siecle
14. After Dark
15. Have You Ever Been Lonely
16. My True Country
17. After Dark (Instrumental)
18. Two Children (Piano version)
19. Lost
20. Tuesday (Instrumental)
21. Half The World
22. Movie Magazine (Instrumental)
23. Mid Air
24. God Is Laughing
25. Buy A Motor Car (Elegance Mix)
26. Half The World (Live)