Diminuendo (album)

Diminuendo
Studio album by Lowlife
Released	1987
Recorded	Edinburgh, Scotland
Genre	Post-punk, dream pop
Length	58:41 (2006 Reissue)
Label	LTM
Producer	Keith Mitchell and Lowlife
Lowlife chronology
Permanent Sleep (1986) Diminuendo (1987) Black Sessions and Demos (1988)

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Diminuendo was released in 1987 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. It was Lowlife's second album. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, and released in May. In 2006, LTM Recordings reissued it as a CD with six bonus tracks: two songs from the "Vain Delights" 12" single (1986) and three from the Swirl It Swings EP (1986). The sixth bonus track is "Ramified", which had been specially recorded by the band for Underground Magazine and provided on a free cassette that was included with the debut issue of that publication in 1987.

Track listing

1. "A Sullen Sky" – 4:11
2. "Big Uncle Ugliness" – 4:06
3. "Ragged Rise To Tumbledown" – 3:49
4. "From Side to Side" – 4:26
5. "Off Pale Yellow" – 4:00
6. "Tongue Tied and Twisted" – 3:56
7. "Licking One's Wounds" – 4:34
8. "Wonders Will Never Cease" – 3:20
9. "Given To Dreaming" – 3:38

Bonus Tracks on 2006 CD Reissue:

1. Hollow Gut – 4:16
2. Permanent Sleep (Steel Mix) – 4:16
3. Eternity Road (12" Mix) – 3:57
4. Swing – 3:44
5. Colours Blue – 3:22
6. Ramified – 4:13

All tracks were written by Will Heggie/Craig Lorentson/Stuart Everest/Grant McDowall

Personnel

• Craig Lorentson - vocals
• Stuart Everest - guitar
• Will Heggie - bass guitar
• Grant McDowall - drums

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