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Aztec Camera
- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Feb 4, 2014
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May 16, 2014With this supremely supple and joyous display of early innocence and promise, Aztec Camera showed they already come into their own.
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Feb 21, 2014Those who bought the album first time round may well feel tempted by the goodies on offer in the second disc. But for those unacquainted with High Land Hard Rain, or know Aztec Camera only from their 1988 hit “Somewhere In My Heart”, you are in for a treat.
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Feb 19, 2014High Land, Hard Rain remains a career highlight.... Knopfler’s production has aged reasonably well, but the cover of Van Halen’s "Jump" (a B-side extra) shows how Frame’s perverse streak could have been managed more creatively.
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Feb 19, 2014Get beyond the Phil Collins-into-Peter Gabriel style clarity, and the songs start to take hold.
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Feb 19, 2014With newly remastered sound and a second disc of worthwhile rarities including live tracks, remixes, B-sides and the like, even fans would do well to take the plunge on this refurbished, expanded reissue of an album that Frame, despite multiple later attempts both under the Aztec Camera moniker and later his own name, never could build a career on.
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Feb 19, 2014It’s a document that is crucial to anyone working to understand the evolution of the UK music scene and a welcome addition to the library of any discerning pop fan.
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Feb 19, 2014High Land is not only his first statement of intent as a songwriter, it’s his most innovative, his most influential, and his most timelessly vivid. Peaking early can be bittersweet, but the album is all the better for it.
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