throughout—the imagery of rain, railway stations, traffic and rooftops will certainly be familiar—and the tempo barely rises above a stately shuffle, which for some might seem a missed opportunity for stylistic innovation. However, for those of us who've cherished the band's previous albums, High is like meeting a new friend, albeit one possessing a reassuring familiarity." Other reviewers were less enthusiastic: Stylus Magazine said, "If you were hoping for something to stand above Hats as a late-night, solitary classic, then High will only get halfway there, because it sounds exactly as you would expect a fourth Blue Nile album to sound. Perhaps their best music has long since been made, but The Blue Nile still do what they do exquisitely well." The Observer was disappointed, saying "the empty streets of provincial towns are the stock-in-trade landscapes of the Blue Nile, and it's one of the saddening facts about High that those landscapes have become a little predictable", while Uncut said that "Paul Buchanan revisits the same spot on the hillside overlooking the evening city lights, is still filled with the same surging, oblique melancholy and longing that has sustained The Blue Nile since 1984, is still crafting singularly mature MOR in a darker shade of turquoise all his own. This time, however, the overall return feels diminished in effect." Track listing All songs written and composed by Paul Buchanan. "The Days of Our Lives" – 3:32 "I Would Never" – 4:26 "Broken Loves" – 5:20 "Because of Toledo" – 3:53 "She Saw the World" – 3:36 "High" – 3:46 "Soul Boy" – 4:40 "Everybody Else" – 3:50 "Stay Close" – 7:46 2020 Remastered Collector's Edition CD bonus disc "Wasted" (Previously unreleased) – 5:52 "The Days of Our Lives" (Remix) – 5:13 "She Saw the World" (Remix) – 3:52 "I" (Previously unreleased) – 6:37 "Big Town" (Previously unreleased) – 5:51 "Here Come the Bluebirds" (Previously unreleased) – 4:51 Personnel The Blue Nile Robert Bell – bass, synthesizers Paul Buchanan – vocals, guitar, synthesizers Paul Joseph Moore – keyboards, synthesizers Additional personnel Calum Malcolm – engineer Charts When it was released in 2004, High became The Blue Nile's first Top 10 album on the Official Charts Company's UK countdown, peaking at number 10 on the chart of 11 September and lasting for three weeks inside the Top 75. In 2020, the album was re-issued by Confetti Records and charted as separate hit