Navigating by the stars: 20th birthday

[Guillaume]

Yes, it has been now 2O years...NAVIGATING BY THE STARS was released in 2OO3.

I've listened to the album yesterday on my headphones, it's been months and months since i haven't listened to it...and i thought yesterday...as much as i think that BDAW is brillant stuff overall, even great at times...NAVIGATING BY THE STARS...i think maybe nothing in NMA's career can match the beauty of this album...really...Justin's voice has never been so moving, the atmosphere so beautiful and melancholic, the production and sounds of instruments so perfect ...what an incredible journey through landscapes and moods this album is, wow...thank you so much Justin!

[Master Ray]

Shitting crikey, TEN years ago..?   

A gorgeous album, one of my favourites...

[lostincanada]

I love this album, in a different way to any of the band albums.  The music is luscious and the writing's possibly Justin's best ever; allusive, evocative, mystical. I live on a sailboat on Lake Ontario, and there's nothing quite like snuggling up with my sweetie in the v-berth on a cool autumn night, listening to NBTS while the dock lines creak and the wind and the water rock the boat.  Just brilliant.

[Johnz]

Probably the album I play the most. Love it from start to finish. Twilight home may well be the most beautiful piece of music JS has ever written. 

I live on my boat in New Zealand and this album has been the soundtrack to so many wonderful hours spent on the Pacific.

[Guillaume]

I live on a sailboat on Lake Ontario, and there's nothing quite like snuggling up with my sweetie in the v-berth on a cool autumn night, listening to NBTS while the dock lines creak and the wind and the water rock the boat.

I guess it must be totally awesome...i'm jealous.

[dilla]

Got good memories of playing NBTS at night at sea.Hearing Ocean Rising in the middle of a gale at sea is something else.Can really picture Shackleton and co being battered by huge seas.A special album

[comber]

I agree with all that's been said about this album.I think my favourite track from this period is Sooner Or Later which was on the b-side of Twilight Home.Should have been on the album!

[Rusco]

I was nearly stunned when I first listened to NBTS. Green is my favourite. What a clever combination of lyrical meanings and mystical elements that raise towards the end of the song. Also, I have to say I think that the version of Ocean's there possibly the best one. There's all that mightyness and intensity even without the bigger rhythm parts.

My wife is working in a kindergarten and she once tried the album as a "sleeping music" to children after reading some stories to them. It worked well.

[Shush]

A very relaxing album. Fine quality from start to finish. No tracks on it I skip when listening to it. Tend to listen to it on the Morning bus when still half asleep. Favourite track, - Ghost Train.

[Guillaume]

I think that all the tracks are fine, indeed.
"Ocean rising", "Twilight home", "Sentry", "Tales of the road", the title track, "Home", "Changing of the light"...great, great stuff.
The production is also very very good, it sounds great, on headphones for example.

[Tony S]

I refuse to believe it's been ten years ! 

Remember as clear as day when this was released, and being completely seduced by its beauty. Wonderful album. I have it on my mp3 player, so dip into it from time to time. I really should get the cd out and listen to the whole album from start to finish again.

[texaspete]

I like this thread  and I think it could also have been called ' Ode to Cornwall '
I am 99.9% sure Twilight Home was written in and about Polzeath !
I've watched those ' little black specks ' surfing into the dusk and sen those ' lanterns on the hill ' !!
It's JS's masterpiece, it always stops me in my tracks !
Great record !

TXP

[Mike]

Defining album from a defining time in my life.

He should tour it again once this BDAW stuff is out of the way.

[Keine Feier ohne Meier]

I will never forget that it is ten years ago already, same age as my oldest sun, I really love the album.

I am pretty sure it was realeased in February/march 2003. and then there was the tour starting where i followed most gigs. Best time ever,

[sozbot]

I've only known this album for about three years, but I love it intensely.

For me, nothing can beat the impact of "Home" flowing into "Changing of the Light" with that single, suspended harmonica note. Brings a lump to my throat every time, because I'm a big softie...

I think, though, that the whole album is a work of genius.