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The Sky Is Too High
Rock · 1998 · 11 tracks

The Sky Is Too High

Graham Coxon

A stark, tape-hissed retreat from the spotlight. Acoustic blues and jagged indie sketches recorded in isolation, capturing a heavy, beautiful loneliness.

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It sounds like a genius hiding in his bedroom with a four-track and a bottle of gin.

A fragile, tape-hissed document of solitary retreat and quiet existential dread.

The Sky Is Too High · vs · Graham Coxon
Lo Fi+2.0σ

The production is built around lo fi than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
That’s All I Wanna Do
4:30
02
Where’d You Go?
3:37
03
In a Salty Sea
2:46
04
A Day Is Far Too Long
4:27
05
R U Lonely?
2:53
06
I Wish
4:48
07
Hard & Slow
2:26
08
Me, You, We Two
2:39
09
Waiting
2:46
10
Who the Fuck?
3:16
11
Morning Blues
2:19
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden, jarring shift into a violent narrative on Who the Fuck? over a primitive drum beat.
The way the acoustic guitar on That’s All I Wanna Do feels like it was recorded inches from your ear.
The mournful, repetitive harmonica wail that anchors the closing track Morning Blues.
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