Custom Blue's debut album "All Follow Everyone" was released via DJ Ross Allen's Island records A&R stable Island Blue on April the 15th 2002. The album and debut single "So Low" (released on the 8th April) had been widely acclaimed throughout the music press.

‘The fluid grooves and restless heart searching of 'All Follow Everyone' stalk a sundown landscape. It could be the empty streets and dimly lit bars of an alienating metropolis. Equaly it could take you to distant shores with the moon rising and space to think of the girl or guy that got away. Certainly, its going to take you on a mesmeric journey like no other album so far this decade.

While your regular British mid-twenties song writing pair have been busy with crash chords and histrionics, Alex Pilkington and Simon Shippey have allowed shadows, soul, string sections and electronically nuanced suggestion to seep into the acoustic songwriter heart of their work.’

"All Follow Everyone" is a collection of unforgettably well-written, well arranged songs. Graceful, thoughtful and poignant - (4/5) SEVEN

That was then....

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