Diminuendo (album) explained

Diminuendo
Type:Album
Artist:Lowlife
Cover:Diminuendo.jpg
Released:May 1987
Studio:Palladium Studios, Edinburgh
Genre:Post-punk, dream pop
Length:58:41 (2006 Reissue)
Label:LTM
Producer:Keith Mitchell, Lowlife
Prev Title:Permanent Sleep
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Black Sessions and Demos
Next Year:1988

Diminuendo is the second album by Lowlife, was released in 1987 in Scotland on the independent label Nightshift Records. 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

All tracks written by Will Heggie, Craig Lorentson, Stuart Everest and Grant McDowall

  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

Personnel

Lowlife