Azure Ray-Hold On Love-CD-FLAC-2003-401

     Artist......: Azure Ray
     Album.......: Hold on Love
     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Saddle Creek
     Genre.......: Indie
     Tracks......: 12
     Bitrate.....: 839 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 00:42:04  (267.MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-12-25
     Store date..: 2003-10-07
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........: http://www.azureraymusic.com/
     01 The Devil's Feet                                                 2:30
     02 New Resolution                                                   3:23
     03 We Are Mice                                                      3:49
     04 Look to Me                                                       3:56
     05 The Drinks We Drank Last Night                                   4:01
     06 Across the Ocean                                                 3:59
     07 If You Fall                                                      3:03
     08 Sea of Doubts                                                    3:36
     09 Dragonfly                                                        2:13
     10 Nothing Like a Song                                              4:09
     11 These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue                        4:08
     12 Hold On Love                                                     3:17
     When it came time to follow up their tiny masterpiece, 2002's November,
     Azure Ray's Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor left behind the Southern comfort
     of Athens, GA, for Omaha. Both of Azure Ray's significant others already
     resided in the quaint Nebraska town, so the two opted to take a chance
     there as well. Such a change worked in their favor on Hold on Love, for the
     two have captured a cohesiveness that was lacking on previous Azure Ray
     albums. Fink and Taylor's gothic dreamscape of wonder and melancholy is
     fleshed out with their breathy warm vocals as the main focus. Lite strings,
     percussion, and assorted acoustic guitars and woodwinds flow nicely
     throughout while misted pianos accent Hold on Love's overall prettiness.
     The sentiment of "These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue" explores Azure
     Ray's desire to sift through the old to make sense of what's new, which is
     also reflective of the group's maturation as artists. "The Drinks We Drank
     Last Night" and "Sea of Doubts" may echo darker thoughts, but Hold on Love
     pines for tight fit in love and all of its loveliness, good and bad. One
     thing that remained the same was having longtime producer Eric Bachmann on
     board. Bachmann fully realizes Azure Ray's cathartic song style, and for
     Hold on Love he and Azure Ray reworked the group's usual ethereality for
     their brightest material yet.

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15M	01-azure_ray-the_devils_feet.flac
23M	02-azure_ray-new_resolution.flac
23M	03-azure_ray-we_are_mice.flac
23M	04-azure_ray-look_to_me.flac
23M	05-azure_ray-the_drinks_we_drank_last_night.flac
23M	06-azure_ray-across_the_ocean.flac
19M	07-azure_ray-if_you_fall.flac
23M	08-azure_ray-sea_of_doubts.flac
11M	09-azure_ray-dragonfly.flac
28M	10-azure_ray-nothing_like_a_song.flac
28M	11-azure_ray-these_white_lights_will_bend_to_make_blue.flac
22M	12-azure_ray-hold_on_love.flac
257M	total