I'm totally biased and have no shame in admitting it.
Winter Hours is one of my favorite bands of all time, and their
music, more than 20 years on from when I first heard them on college
radio in NY, still means as much to me now as it did then. I first heard
the song "Hyacinth Girl" on WNYU FM in 1985 or so and it stopped me
literally in my tracks. As for this later album and the band's major label
debut, at first I didn't know what to make of some of the perhaps, more
"straightforward" directions they took on this album, which was recorded for
Chrysalis at the time, but now I regard it as every bit the classic that their earlier LPs and EPs were.

I recall calling Chrysalis at the time and they (I'll give them this much credit, but not much
more) sent me a review copy of the cassette, which I promptly reviewed for my college
newspaper at NYIT on Long Island, a review which was reasonably well-received even
though I fear most of the student body there was somewhat brain-dead to good music, at the time. Winter Hours had
some bad luck and record company difficulties that led to their original breakup, and also
more recently have suffered an even greater tragedy that I'd rather not even go into,
and it's not my place to do so.

If you value great rock and roll music and great power pop/folk rock/roots rock
and a rock and roll record that will transport you out of mundane reality and into
a higher, greater plane of existence, you cannot go wrong buying this fantastic
reissue of a fantastic and eternally great album. This is how a reissue/remaster
should be done and it was executed with tender, loving care.

Perhaps my only complaint is that the unreleased Winter Hours song "Her Heaven",
recorded around the same time as this LP, I believe, is not included here but HAS been included on the
Winter Hours double-CD tribute album that came out in 2009. I believe that song
is so great it should also have been included here, although I suppose it would
therefore be redundant. But god, what a massively stonking "lost" track!
Another song that truly deserved to be all over the radio but sadly, never was, or
will be. The tribute CD is ok, but once you hear "Winter Hours" you'll want to
own everything the band recorded, including all their earlier Link Records vinyl
and CD releases. Their vinyl releases are still relatively easy
to find/collect, but I wonder for how long that will hold true.

But this reissue is truly essential, it's affordable, it comes with a free downloadable period concert
recording which is equally fantastic (and sounds brilliant as well), and only accentuates a masterpiece that
Chrysalis Records, in their infinite stupidity and shortsightedness, buried and abandoned the first time
around in 1989-1990. Even the bonus tracks and outtakes here are all essential,
unlike many reissues. I can't recommend it any more highly than that.
Well, Chrysalis Records is dead and buried but Winter Hours keeps going strong, at least
in its fans hearts and minds. And the music don't lie. The proof is in the grooves, now as then.

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Frank M. Altamura

Got this for "Smoke Rings"...

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...turns out there ate other good songs on it too. Sorry to hear that Winter Hours is no more, I'm sure there would have been many more great tunes. Maybe a reunion? How about it fellas?

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Pete Mestizo

What the world missed (Not a cliché ..just listen)

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When you listen to this album you realise that the cliché above is true.
Yes, this is one of the greatest bands the music world missed. This album is the only official album under the umbrella of a multinational record label that the Winter Hours released. Before this, they made some singles and eps or mini albums and an album with the indie label Link records. I hope one day these recordings see the light too. Sadly my favourites Island of Jewels (a song of genius) and All Along the Watchtower (probably the best cover of the Dylan song ...ok well, jimi's is more powerful and eerie but the melancholy that Winter Hours singer Joe Marques carries in his delivery turn the song into more poignant and somehow more suited to the words) are not included in this album. This album with the multinational Chrysalys was set to be the record that was going to put them in the Big League as R.E.M.. Ironically, it was the one that destroyed them. It is not because of its lack of quality but probably for the pressure and expectations that was put on them. It includes great songs such as Roadside Flowers, Smoke Rings or Broken Little Man among others. Definitely a great album that thanks to Arena Rock Recording Company has been remastered and released after being a long time unavailable. I can't stop recommending Winter Hours music. Maybe because I haven't seen many singers with so much emotion in their voice like Joe. I cannot forget that unexpected gig Winter Hours made in a little bar, El Agapo, in the rock district of Malasaña in Madrid in the late eighties. Really touching and magnificent.

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Donald E. Gilliland

Underrated 80s band

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I used to enjoy listening to Winter Hours on vinyl way back in the 1980s. Yeah, I'm that old. I wanted to get "Wait Till The Morning" on CD but that is currently selling for obscenely outrageous prices. Great album, but not worth several hundred dollars! So, I ordered this one instead. I recall being somewhat disappointed by this album when it was first released. To me, it didn't have that immediate catchiness or vibrance of the earlier album and EPs. But listening to it again two decades later, I appreciate it a lot more. It's definitely a grower, one of those albums with depth and subtle layers that ends up putting the hooks in you eventually. It's too band that this major label effort didn't yield more sales and more interest. The band broke up not long afterwards and lead singer and songwriter, the very talented Joseph Marques, died in 2003. I still think that this band was capable of making greater and even more amazing music, but this CD still goes a long way in showing how powerful and magical they were. Well worth your time.

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