Yes, AZURE RAY are back with this short album recorded in Birmingham Alabama but sounding more like they are on planet Ethereal rather than making anything approaching Southern rock.
The album opens with Scattered Like Leaves: an ambient glitch tune that once the vocals come in sounds like Portishead meets Beth Orton in the Chill out Room of a very hip club to sing about how the world is ending. It's a very affecting tune that really made me listen to it every time I've put this CD on and is the stand out track on the album.
Red Balloon is a rather gauzy shimmer of a chill out number that drifted by me to be replaced by Unannounced which is a rather wonky chilled out almost backwards sounding heartbreak in the midst of some isolated place like Stereolab going properly odd and slightly desperate. If you get my drift.
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The next two numbers sort of floated past me every time I heard them and never made me take note of them unlike album closer We Could Wake which is a very dreamy float away downstream chilled ambient song that gives the impression that the last thing Azure Ray want to do is to wake up as they far prefer lazing about and chilling out.
I don't know how this compares to the band's previous albums but if you want a good album to listen to on a Sunday afternoon when you stumble out of bed still out of it from the night before this could well be a perfect record for you.
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