The Blue Nile

According to the Blue Nile's website, singer Paul Buchanan is booked to play two shows at the Knitting Factory on April 27-28 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

This is very exciting news to me, as Scotland's The Blue Nile has been my quiet secret favorite music thing of mine throughout the band's 4CD, 20-year career.

Their music is wonderful to hear and somewhat difficult for me to describe. It's definitely grownup music, in the sense that the music carries emotions that ring harder as age creeps in. This is not music for 18 yr. olds.

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS – "The emotive, yearning vocals and chilling tunesmanship of Paul Buchanan plus the band's poignant, minimalist arrangements make for a combination that is both sublime and heartbreaking."

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY says "Rejoice, acolytes--the Scottish priests of midnight yearning are back with their first CD in eight years, their fourth in 21, and their best since 1989's Hats. If the lyrics now take in distant children and middle-aged loss, the music remains the same: crystalline mid-tempo soundscapes in which regret and ecstasy twine into a spiritual double helix. "An ordinary miracle is all we really need," croons Paul Buchanan. This will do." A

Check more reviews of High at the band's site. You can hear song samples from their Sanctuary Records sampler.

Read a BBC review of the band's last proper LP, 2004's High.

More Blue Nile background info available at AltSounds.