The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftoops (1984)

I was already a cynical office drone when I first heard this around 1985, but of its time as it was in terms of production values, there was something about 'A Walk Across the Rooftops' that evoked the delicious melancholia of '70s mind pop.

Purists might pooh-pooh at the electro-pop arrangements and the group's obsession with romantic fatalism, but they can't deny the moody majesty of the melodies and the languid charm of Paul Buchanan's emotive singing.