Across a thousand blades- a retrospective

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across a thousand blades- a retrospective
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Released1996
Genre Dark ambient
Length??
Label Projekt Records
Black Tape for a Blue Girl chronology
The First Pain to Linger
(1996)
across a thousand blades- a retrospective
(1996)
Remnants of a Deeper Purity
(1996)

across a thousand blades- a retrospective is the second compilation album by the Darkwave band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. It was released in 1996 by Projekt Records in conjunction with the band's second show, August 2 1997 at the Vic Theatre, Chicago, as part of the second Projekt Festival.

Track listing

  1. "Remnants of a Deeper Purity"
  2. "Across a Thousand Blades" ('96)
  3. "Overwhelmed, Beneath Me"
  4. "One Last Breath"
  5. "The Floor Was Hard but Home"
  6. "The Flow of Our spirit"
  7. "For You Will Burn Your Wings Upon the Sun pt.1"
  8. "For You Will Burn Your Wings Upon the Sun pt.2"
  9. "Through Sky Blue Rooms" (live ‘96)
  10. "The Turbulence and the Torment"
  11. "Chains of Color"
  12. "Scream, My Shallow" [1]

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