Mid Air

2012 solo album from the Blue Nile frontman. Mid Air features 14 songs written, performed and produced by Paul Buchanan and was recorded at home, at a friend's house on the East Coast of Scotland, and at Gorbals Sound, a new state of the art studio in Glasgow. Mid Air is an extraordinarily intimate record, it's spare piano and vocal-based arrangements unfurling at a meditative pace. Thirteen of it's 14 tracks are less than three minutes long, but rest assured all life is here. Buchanan's beautifully bruised voice remains a faithful conduit of all things emotive, and Mid Air was written from a place of humility and wee-small-hours contemplation.