Option Magazine: We’re talking deep European existential despair here, the fevered outpouring of a tortured soul.

Second vinyl edition, 140-gram Gold in Ultra Clear, with b&w lyric insert. Limited edition of 300

Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s third album (1989) was remastered from the original 1/4’tapes. It’s an album of existential, ethereal, and gothic musings with angst and trepidation in the lyrics yet also beauty and hopeful melancholia in the mood and music. The remastered sound is warm and clear, while retaining that dreamy, romantic quality from the 80s.

Alternative Press: ‘This is hurting, romantic lament. Herrera’s vocals ram me with image-brimming, griping vacancy of the precariously desperate soul hanging beneath hope by a frayed thread.’

Ashes brought the band out of the fanzine-based underground to listeners of 80s ‘college radio.’ ‘Across a thousand blades’ on CMJ’s Certain Damagecompilation we