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The Blue Nile: High (Sanctuary)

Barney Hoskyns, Observer, The, July 2004

ANYONE WHO loves the Blue Nile as much as I do will know there is something profoundly holy about their music. Twenty years after the majestic ‘Tinseltown in the Rain’, theirs remains the sound of deep healing – of empathy with man at his most flawed and fragile.

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