Product Description English cult faves Trembling Blue Stars create a gorgeously melancholy tunes that combine jangly guitars new wave-style electronics and often lush orchestrations with intensely personal deeply romantic lyrics from vocalist-guitarist Bobby Wratten. The album at time recalls the pastoral folk-rock of Nick Drake and the confessional intimacy of Joni Mitchell's BLUE period, yet it's sound remains totally contemporary Fans of the quieter side of Yo La Tengo and of the yearning, unrequited-love songs of the Postal Service will surely relate. This is their first album of all-new material in two years and it's Bar None debut. Since 1997, the band has garnered a loyal international following that has eagerly awaited each of it's four previous releases. SEVEN AUTUMN FLOWERS is the ideal soundtrack for falling in love or making up after breaking up, the perfect warm accompaniment for intimate evening in and languid morning-after. About the Artist Trembling Blue Stars began in the winter of '95 as a solo project from London-based singer-songwriter Bobby Wratten in the aftermath of his short-lived band Northern Picture Library breaking up. Until then, he'd been better known as the lead singer and songwriter of English cult faves the Field Mice, flagship group of the much-loved and very idiosyncratic indie label Sarah Records. Wratten borrowed his new band's name from a line in The Story of O, Pauline Reage's classic novel of S&M erotica and took the title for TBS's 1996 debut album, Her Handwriting, from a Go-Betweens lyric. What started out as a do-it-yourself, one-off effort received so much attention from U.K. critics and indie rock fans that Wratten was persuaded to assemble a band to perform TBS songs live. Early shows, which included an acoustic session for BBC Radio 1, were infrequent enough to be regarded as rare and special occasions; an out-of-the-way gig in Brighton during summer '97 attracted fans who flew in from the U.S., France and Switzerland. Over the course of five subsequent albums, Trembling Blue Stars have indeed become a "real" entity. The current lineup features vocalist-guitarist Wratten, backing vocalist Beth Arzy (of former Field Mice label mates, Aberdeen), bassist Keris Howard (another Sarah alumnus, from Brighter) and drummer Jonathan Ackerman. The Seven Autumn Flowers, produced in collaboration with Saint Etienne engineer Ian Catt, is the first TBS disc of all-new material in three years. This North American edition includes four bonus tracks previously available as import-only B-sides.