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XA N i miracles take a little longer “It is tempting to go on about how this record evokes rainy city nights, solo journeys home and the pull of love, but given half the songs are | called things like that, it’d be a bit obvious. The thing with The Blue Nile is that most of what you can say about them is obvious. They make incredibly simple-sounding emotional records about the QAT 9 Fli fascinates them. And they’re very good at it. (9) NME