“We always said that our ‘transformation’ from indie art pop to mainstream pop rock was a natural thing.”
Justin Currie, 2010
Proper Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Recordings, are delighted to make again available Waking Hours, the breakthrough second album from respected Glasgow group, Del Amitri.
After beginning in the mid 80s as a leftfield indie-jangle band, Del Amitri were now developing into a west-coast influenced classic pop act. Originally released on A&M Records in July 1989, reaching No 6 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 60 singles, Waking Hours was their commercial breakthrough. The group, led by bassist-vocalist-writer Justin Currie and writer-guitarist Iain Harvie, worked with producer Gil Norton on demos in 1987 that led to them being signed to A&M Records. Working further with Hugh Jones and Mark Freegard, they made an album that chimed with the times, offering an antidote to Madchester with its beguiling selection of grown-up pop. Opening track and first single ‘Kiss This Thing Goodbye’ set the scene perfectly, a record that sounded like it should be played loud on a sunlit freeway, but it was the album’s third single, the affecting ballad ‘Nothing Ever Happens,’ released as single at the start of 1990, that established the group in the UK while making significant inroads in the US.
Waking Hours is presented in the highly sought-after original 1989 artwork and is pressed onto 180gm blue vinyl. Whether replacing much-loved originals, or adding to a collection afresh, this is a superior way to enjoy such enduring and influential music.
Pre-order links:
https://del-amitri.lnk.to/wakinghours
