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  After This - Fields [12 OPA 012 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] Surprisingly, Fields is one of the most requested re-ups (I usually delete old links after about a year), so I decided to give the vinyl a good clean and re-rip in a choice of resolutions. This will be the last time I rip this record, it does sound really great and I don't think I will ever be able to improve on this After This. I can't say that I know much about After This, the sleeve says very little and internet research reveals nothing, except that the songwriting credit goes to Richard Lowe who seems to have been involved with nothing else. This gentle and cheery synthpop single was produced by former Associate and Paul Haig collaborator Alan Rankine, and released on Les Disques du Crepescule's British subsidiary Operation Afterglow.  Fields evokes good memories of decent Scouse synth acts such as OMD or China Crisis, whereas the more mundane Hollow Hills on the flip-side does lack the sparkle of the A-side. Some...

After This - Fields [12 OPA 012 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] I can't say that I know much about After This, the sleeve says very little and internet research reveals nothing. This gentle and cheery synthpop single was produced by former Associate and Paul Haig collaborator Alan Rankine, and released on Les Disques du Crepescule's British subsidiary Operation Afterglow.  Fields evokes good memories of decent Scouse synth acts such as OMD or China Crisis, whereas the more mundane Hollow Hills on the flip-side does lack the sparkle of the A-side. Some may be interested to know that the runout groove is etched with a Crepescule catelogue number TWI 707. A1   Fields B1   Hollow Hills This is a new 2019 rip of a single originally featured on ESWA in October 2014.