Originally released on A&M Records in July 1989, Waking Hours was Del Amitri’s commercial breakthrough reaching No 6 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 60 singles. This LP re-issue is released on 12 July 2024, pressed on high quality blue vinyl and faithfully replicates the original 1989 “blue background” artwork. After beginning in …
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After the huge, consolidating success of 1992’s Waking Hours, Twisted was a confident return for Del Amitri, now comfortably established as one of the 90s most interesting, exhilarating groups. Although they were very much in another lane, it’s impossible not to hear the subtle influence they had on the-then current Britpop phenomenon with the chiming …
Starting off as a janglesome Scottish indie group, Del Amitri had developed into a west-coast influenced leftfield pop act, and now with the wind of success in their hair (after the protracted build of Waking Hours), the group – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie, David Cummings, Andy Alston and Brian McDermott – paired up with producer …