Black Tape For A Blue Girl Remnants Of A Deeper Purity

A classic darkwave masterpiece: dramatically flirts with symphonic decay. Their best seller on limited edition 2LP hand-poured vinyl.

• 2025 vinyl 2LP re-release in beautiful hand-poured edition. Each one is unique.
• Orange Rust Swirl, 140 gram.
• Limited to 500.
• 4-page insert w/lyrics & candid photos.
• Remastered for vinyl in Europe from original DAT mixes.
• Their best-selling release, from 1996.

Achingly beautiful neo-classical, ethereal, darkwave with long deep tones, intense vocals and rich cello and violin arrangements. Mesmerizing & melancholy.

The Philadelphia City Paper: Like Dead Can Dance, black tape for a blue girl dramatically flirts with symphonic decay. The music is brightly lit and subtly melodic; forlorn chords arch and bend, the drama giving way to auburn radiance.

The 77-minute album is Blacktape's masterpiece: exquisite and stunning. Wrapped up in the emotions of betrayal and salvation, searching for the deeper fragments -- somewhere between sadness and hope -- Sam's words and harmonies weave a soft, opaque veil over a world where feeling is foremost, emotions on the surface, the heart laid bare.

The Washington Post: Devotees of more upscale forms of bombast may scoff at goth (or "darkwave"), but there's little on Black Tape for a Blue Girl's Remnants that's more lugubrious than a typical passage from Berlioz or Richard Strauss. Indeed, the 22-minute "For You Will Burn Your Wings Upon the Sun" is very much the symphonic tone poem, all straining strings and morose melody. Compositions such as "Fin de Siecle" and the title song consist primarily of crypto-classical flourishes and pseudo-churchly vocal arrangements.

musictap.net: Black Tape for a Blue Girl's greatest achievement is a great cause for celebration. This classic album is priceless.

huh magazine: The ethereal, romantic sounds of Remnants is their richest work so far: tapestries of melancholic, often neo-classical music manifest themselves amidst waves of Rosenthal's lush keyboards, haunting strings and the vocals of Oscar & Lucian.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

redefine pure faith
fin de siécle
with my sorrows

Disc 2:

for you will burn your wings upon the sun

Disc 3:

wings tattered, fallen
fitful
remnants of a deeper purity

Disc 4:

Again, to Drift (for Veronika)
I have no more answers