Pink Turns Blue – Meta

Recorded on the heels of their debut album, If Two World Kiss (reissued in tandem by Dais Records) and informed by the band’s oscillating live synergy and bolstered by a boon of new equipment and texture, Pink Turns Blue’s sophomore 1988 album Meta was a conceptual leap predicated by the study of sound and exploration of it’s edges. With the same fervor that Joy Division mined deeper, darker, and less linear on their second album Closer, Meta is a cohesive meditation on atmosphere and how every note and passage can traverse space individually, as part of a larger narrative. Singles “Touch the Skies” and “Your Master Is Calling” are the albums cornerstones; airy, steady, and driving tracks with a depth of melody and orchestration that sparked a shimmering new example of dark pop. The instrumental balance throughout the album creates a strobe light journey later echoed throughout gothic compatriots exploring minor keys and nocturnal themes.

2019 Reissue, Clear Vinyl
Label: Daisy Discs
Cat. #DAISLC1392