“Walk Out To Winter” by Aztec Camera

"Walk Out to Winter" comes from High Land, Hard Rain, the debut album Aztec Camera put out on Rough Trade in February 1983, the jangle-pop record that carried Roddy Frame's band from indie singles onto the UK albums chart. Frame wrote and arranged it, sings it and plays guitar, backed by the lineup he had built by then: Campbell Owens, on bass since the band's first year, and Dave Ruffy, formerly of the Ruts, on drums and percussion.

John Brand produced it with keyboardist Bernie Clarke, a late arrival to the band, and Brand engineered the sessions. It's bright and bittersweet, all chiming guitar and big-hearted melody.

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