Her Handwriting

About Her Handwriting

Her Handwriting is the debut album by English indie pop band Trembling Blue Stars, released in May 1996 as the first album on Shinkansen Recordings. The album is an intimate song cycle centred on the romantic break-up of frontman Bobby Wratten and Anne Mari Davies, his former bandmate in The Field Mice and Northern Picture Library. After writing several songs about the break-up in early 1995 that Wratten believed to be messy, he discarded them, but engineer and musician Ian Catt persuaded him to record material based on the break-up in his own studios in Mitcham, South London, over the subsequent autumn and winter. Musically, Her Handwriting blends indie pop and electronic music, and features dreamy guitars and ambient textures. The album was named after a lyric from the Go-Betweens and was promoted with the single "Abba on the Jukebox" ahead of the album's release, one of the less direct songs on the album, which was greeted with critical acclaim. Similar acclaim met the album when it was released the following month. Melody Maker later named it one of the year's best albums, and LTM Recordings re-released it in a new remastered with bonus tracks in 2006 more »