Astronauts

With the shoegaze and baggy movements at their zenith, The Lilac Time's fourth album was released at a moment when the left-field music zeitgeist was shaped by the nascent shoegaze, baggy and grunge movements. Whilst Astronauts conformed to none of those trends, neither was it the record Stephen had in his head when he finally finished working on it. We'll never know how that record would have sounded, but it's hard to imagine a better version of the album he did end up making. The songwriter who brought 'A Taste of Honey' and 'Hats Off, Here Comes the Girl' into the world envisaged the sort of choruses that would jump from the single speaker of your favourite transistor and lodge themselves into the collective memory bank.

Disc 1
1: In Iverna Gardens
2: Hats Off Here Comes the Girl
3: Fortunes
4: A Taste for Honey
5: Grey Skies and Work Things
6: Finistère
7: Dreaming
8: The Whisper of Your Mind
9: The Darkness of Her Eyes
10: Sunshines Daughter
11: North Kensington
12: Madresfield

Disc 2
1: Astronauts Meditation
2: Writing Dreaming
3: We Came from Anywhere
4: She Is All Colour
5: Writing Finistére
6: This Immortal Promise
7: In Iverna Dreaming
8: Hats Off #1
9: Writing the Whisper
10: You Come By
11: North Kensington Idea
12: Madresfield

Disc 3
1: Fields (Sunday 28th October 1990, Derby College of Higher Education)
2: The Road to Happiness (Thursday 16th May 1991, London, Underworld)
3: Black Velvet (Underworld)
4: Julie Christie (Saturday 18th May 1991, Manchester University)
5: And On We Go (Derby)
6: Dreaming (Manchester)
7: Icing On the Cake (Derby)
8: Lost Girl in the Midnight Sun (Underworld)
9: If the Stars Shine Tonight (Manchester)

Number of Discs: 3

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