Home / Music / The Blue Nile's five-year gap reflected their famously slow working paceMusic linernotes album music the-blue-nileThe Blue Nile's five-year gap reflected their famously slow working paceThe Blue Nile’s debut A Walk Across the Rooftops came out in 1984. Hats arrived five years later — the band was never in a hurry. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesHats reached No. 12 on the UK albums chart — The Blue Nile's best showingThe Blue Nile spent five years making Hats — and scrapped a whole album along the wayThe Blue Nile's Hats came out on Linn Records, the hi-fi company's labelThree singles came from The Blue Nile's HatsThe Blue Nile's Hats came out in October 1989ExploreConfield divided listeners on release but is now recognized as Autechre's most important workCourt and Spark is widely regarded as Joni Mitchell's masterpiece — Pazz & Jop No. 1 for 1974Donny Hathaway Live ranked No. 48 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Live Albums of All TimeErykah Badu was discovered through a 19-song demo recorded with her cousinExile on Main St. was panned on release — now it's considered one of the greatest albums everPrevious The Blue Nile's Hats came out in October 1989Next The BBC banned 'Lola' until Davies changed a lyric