A Gentle Sound
The Railway Children - Reunion Wilderness [1-90636 USA 1987 24-Bit FLAC] History burns! Before Madchester Mondays, The Railway Children (from Wigan) were Factory Records' great white hopes but in typical Factory-style the label didn't have the means or the where-with-all to make them the success they strived for. Reunion Wilderness followed the two Factory singles and though very well received failed to sell in any quantity. The band were eventually to sign for Virgin Records and found some chart success. Before then, the UK major licensed Reunion Wilderness for the US market and employed local Manc studio engineer Ged Yeates to polish it up a bit (make it sound more like The Smiths?) and pad it out from the original mini-album into a proper long player. Hence this post is also a tale of two albums and you can now compare the two records. The Factory version is big and booming in sound quality pressed onto thick vinyl, so with only seven tracks at 33rpm it sou...