Diminuendo (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Diminuendo

| type = Album

| artist = Lowlife

| cover = Diminuendo.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 1987

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Palladium Studios, Edinburgh

| genre = Post-punk, dream pop

| length = 58:41 (2006 Reissue)

| label = LTM

| producer = Keith Mitchell, Lowlife

| prev_title = Permanent Sleep

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = Black Sessions and Demos

| next_year = 1988

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r214348}}

}}

Diminuendo is the second album by Lowlife, was released in 1987 in Scotland on the independent label Nightshift Records. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, 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 (1986). The sixth bonus track is "Ramified", which 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.