The Railway Children

UK first press 1987.
Factory Records but make it windswept and emotional. Big chiming guitars, earnest vocals and that late 80s feeling where everything is either heartbreak or transcendence and sometimes both at once. It’s dramatic without being daft, jangly without being flimsy, and absolutely built for staring out of bus windows pretending you’re in a music video. Quietly massive record if you’re into that hopeful melancholic thing. Class. FFO The Smiths less sarcasm, The House of Love, James early era, New Order when they went jangly