‣ Packed with external cover
‣ Blue cassette with onbody print
Includes unlimited streaming of Blue Sky Girl
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Yellow Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
‣ Packed with external cover
‣ Yellow cassette with onbody print
Includes unlimited streaming of Blue Sky Girl
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
‣ Black CD with grooves on top and unique packaging that emulates classical vinyl record
‣ Printed label
‣ Double-printed external sleeve made of thick carton board, top quality print
Includes unlimited streaming of Blue Sky Girl
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Manhatten was born in and of the 1980s and, in his own words, "survived the decade the first time around and decided to go back for more". Combining old tech and sounds with new production ideas, he's helping to bring the 1980's back (minus the shoulder pads)... even if no-one wants him to.
The album is the story of the Blue Sky Girl - she represents that one person in everyone's life who seems to burn twice as bright, but for half as long. Listen as the story unfolds and draw your own conclusions as to who she is, what happened and how it will end.
Dripping in nostalgia but not looking backwards, tinged with a beautiful melancholy that'll have you dancing, and packing a few well placed punches to the Juno 106, the one thing for sure is that you'll remember it, like your own Blue Sky Girl, for the years to come...
"Blue Sky Girl is an album drenched in emotion. It has nostalgia without over-reliance on that feeling, energy that is tinged with sadness and power that is able to lift the listener up and carry them soaring along. If this is what Manhatten Synth has to offer in the future, I’ll take some more please!" - Karl Magi (bit.ly/2BDJEd5)
"The overall flow of “Blue Sky Girl” feels like a telephone conversation between two people who either want to or already intimately know one another. And while I do tend to think that Manhatten intended his version of the “Blue Sky Girl” to be somebody he actually knows, I can’t help but feel like there’s a great distance between him and her." - Nioletta Winters (Loveacrosslightyears.com)
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released May 28, 2020
Guitars on tracks "Slow Burn" and "A Kind Of Freedom" by Jack Wood
Voice of the "Blue Sky Girl" by Star Madman
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Another chilled, yet action packed soundtrack from AA.
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