{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Green Blue Fire | type = Album | artist = Husikesque | cover = Husikesque - Green Blue Fire.jpg | alt = | released = April 1996 | recorded = Spring 1995 | venue = | studio = T.T.B., Wakefield, England | genre = Alternative rock | length = 48:09 | label = Astralwerks<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/06/14/lida-husiks-two-worlds/b7129df2-7280-4eb7-8b92-2702820cdd9d/|title=LIDA HUSIK'S TWO WORLDS|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=June 14, 1996|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> | producer = Richard Brown, Beaumont Hannant<ref name=MH/> | chronology = Lida Husik | prev_title = Joyride | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Fly Stereophonic | next_year = 1997 }} '''''Green Blue Fire''''' is an album by Lida Husik and Beaumont Hannant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/274578/lida-husik/|title=Lida Husik|first=John|last=Dugan|date=January 22, 1999|website=Washington City Paper}}</ref> It was released in 1996 through Astralwerks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lida-husik-mn0000824082/biography|title=Lida Husik | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref>
==Conception== The album was inspired by Husik's travels in York, England.<ref name=CL/>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r233429|pure_url=yes}}|title=Green Blue Fire |website=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=February 21, 2013}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=424}}</ref> |rev3 = ''MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'' |rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |pages=568–569}}</ref> |rev4 = ''Muzik'' |rev4Score = 4/10<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Newsome |first=Rachel |date=February 1997 |title=Lida Husik: ''Green Blue Fire'' |url=http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik021_february_1997_2.pdf |magazine=Muzik |issue=21 |page=96 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402181504/http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik021_february_1997_2.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2022 |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> }} ''The Washington Post'' called the album "wispy, neo-psychedelic electronic music."<ref name="auto"/> ''Trouser Press'' called it "by turns stark, still and catchy."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Lida Husik |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/lida-husik/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=21 October 2020}}</ref> ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' called ''Green Blue Fire'' "chill-out ambient folk—groovy at times, dull at others."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=April 1996 |page=36}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Lida Husik, except "Starburst 7," co-written by Beaumont Hannant | title1 = The Bird | length1 = 5:01 | title2 = Bad Head Day | length2 = 4:30 | title3 = Haunt Me | length3 = 3:25 | title4 = Wonderland | length4 = 5:59 | title5 = River Ouse | length5 = 3:07 | title6 = Just Like Candy | length6 = 4:58 | title7 = All Hands on Deck | length7 = 5:09 | title8 = Starburst 7 | length8 = 5:47 | title9 = Soul of Gold | length9 = 3:31 | title10 = Dead Radio | length10 = 6:42 }}
==Personnel== *Richard Brown – keyboards, percussion, production, engineering *Beaumont Hannant – keyboards, percussion, production, engineering *Wendi Horowitz – design *Lida Husik – vocals, guitar, keyboards, photography
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