BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL – The Rope (40th Anniversary Edition) (Digipak) - 2CD

BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL – The Rope (40th Anniversary Edition) (Digipak) - 2CD

Limited Edition of strictly 300 copies ONLY.

The CD comes in a 6-panel digipak, 4-panel photo insert, and sticker. The 2CD includes 7 previously unreleased bonus tracks, NOT included in the previous ’25 years’ The Rope re-release!
 
The album was included on Uncut Magazine’s February 2025 issue among the “200 Greatest Goth Albums”:

"The vehicle for the more electronic songwriting of Projekt Records’ founder Sam Rosenthal, brought to life by singer Oscar Herrera’s arch delivery. BTFABG spun a unique thread of ambient darkwave, neoclassical exoticism and dark cabaret on" their relatively bare-boned and lo-fi debut album.
 
Bob Magazine (1986) wrote: "The Rope, a project of Projekt’s Sam Rosenthal, makes music of a sort more often associated with British artists, specifically those you’d find on labels like Fetish or 4AD. The Rope‘s warmly textured avant-pop plays like a blend of Chris & Cosey and the Cocteau Twins. black tape for a blue girl is also the best retort I’ve heard lately to the argument that synthesizers are inherently cold and unemotional. The synthesizers are emotive because his music is: gently disorienting, autumnal, mesmerizing, mournful, full of wonder and elusive grandeur. This album could bring on midnight at noon. The room grows black and the ceiling opens. The sky is awash with sound, so lie back . . . listen . . . and feel."
 
Allmusic (2000s): "The debut Blacktape album, especially in light of the band’s later efforts, makes for an interesting listen in retrospect. On the one hand, much of what would make Blacktape so distinct is already in place: vocalist Oscar Herrera’s passionate interpretation of Rosenthal’s romantically obsessed lyrics, Rosenthal’s own moody, haunting contributions on keyboards, atmospheric instrumental pieces, and more. (However) the sheer depth of later Blacktape music makes the comparatively less full arrangements here sound more like demos. By no means is this criticism, it’s just that those expecting the Blacktape aesthetic to have been fully formed from the start will be initially surprised with The Rope, but will find its charms to be plentiful in the end.”

Tracklist:
01 memory, uncaring friend 
02 hide in yourself 
03 within these walls 
04 the holy terrors 
05 end 
06 seven days til sunrise 
07 the rope
08 the few remaining threads 
09 the lingering flicker 
10 slow blur 
11 the floor was hard but home 
12 we return
13 the lingering flicker (first draft)
14 within these walls (early mix with clarinet)
15 the holy terrors (long)
16 second dream
17 the lingering flicker (isolated violins)
18 within these walls (short with violins)
19 memory, uncaring friend (remix intro)