The Wild Swans - Bringing Home the Ashes (1988)

Bittersweet, shimmering, pretty much perfect English new wave. The kind of swooning songs that set your heart aflutter like you're a high schooler in love, then you notice that the singer's saying stuff like, "God has left the world bereft / And the scars remain."

Track listing:
1. Young Manhood
2. Bible Dreams
3. Bitterness
4. Archangels
5. Northern England
6. Whirlpool Heart
7. Bringing Home the Ashes
8. Mythical Beast
9. Now and Forever
10. The Worst Year of My Life

My blackest days were bandaged white

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