Diminuendo was released in 1987 in Scotland

Scotland

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 on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label

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. It was Lowlife

Lowlife (band)

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's second album. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland, and released in May. In 2006, LTM Recordings reissued it as a CD with six bonus tracks: two songs from the "Vain Delights" 12" single (1986) and three from the Swirl It Swings EP

Extended play

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 (1986). The sixth bonus track is "Ramified", a song never previously available on CD. It had been specially recorded by the band for Underground Magazine and provided on a free cassette that was included with the debut issue of that publication in 1987.

Track listing

1. "A Sullen Sky" – 4:11
2. "Big Uncle Ugliness" – 4:06
3. "Ragged Rise To Tumbledown" – 3:49
4. "From Side to Side" – 4:26
5. "Off Pale Yellow" – 4:00
6. "Tongue Tied and Twisted" – 3:56
7. "Licking One's Wounds" – 4:34
8. "Wonders Will Never Cease" – 3:20
9. "Given To Dreaming" – 3:38

Bonus Tracks on 2006 CD Reissue:

1. Hollow Gut – 4:16
2. Permanent Sleep (Steel Mix) – 4:16
3. Eternity Road (12" Mix) – 3:57
4. Swing – 3:44
5. Colours Blue – 3:22
6. Ramified – 4:13

All tracks were written by Will Heggie/Craig Lorentson/Stuart Everest/Grant McDowall

Personnel

• Craig Lorentson - vocals
• Stuart Everest - guitar
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• Will Heggie
  Will Heggie
  Will Heggie is a Scottish musician. He co-founded the Cocteau Twins in 1980 with Robin Guthrie, and served as the bassist for them until 1983 . Immediately after departing the Cocteau Twins, he helped form Lowlife and played bass with them from 1983–1997....
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Grant McDowall - drums
  Drum kit
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