It’s been six years since 著名celebrated female duo Azure Ray released their critically acclaimed album Hold On Love. 
Label: Saddle Creek
Genre: Dream Pop,Indie,Acoustic
2010/9/14
由Maria Taylor 和 Orenda Fink兩名冰雪聰明女子所組成的Azure Ray，音樂正如其名，蔚藍射線，溫柔地照拂著每一顆在黑夜中徬徨的心靈。Azure Ray成熟美麗的旋律撰寫方式、簡約中卻又流露豐富層次感的編曲，獨特而夢幻。
★ Azure Ray有著媚惑人心的唱腔，並流淌出溫暖輕快的迷幻意境。
★ 歌曲曾為《穿著Prada的惡魔》、《六呎風雲》、《性愛巴士》、《艾瑪的禮物》、《咖啡王子一號店》等著名影視作品選為配樂
1. Wake Up, Sleepyhead 01:43
2. Don’t Leave My Mind 03:43
3. In The Fog 03:23
4. Larraine 04:28
5. On And On Again 04:22
6. Make Your Heart 03:33
7. Silver Sorrow 04:16
8. Signs In The Leaves 03:00
9. Love And Permanence 03:53
10. Shouldn’t Have Loved 04:10
11. Dancing Ghosts 03:52
12. Walking In Circles 02:46
Wistful, languid dream pop is the order of the day on Azure Ray's Drawing Down the Moon (September 14, Saddle Creek), the long-awaited creative re-pairing of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor and the duo's first new studio output since 2003's Hold On Love. Both Fink and Taylor have kept busy since their '04 split, with a variety of solo albums -- most recently with 2009 efforts LadyLuck from Taylor and Ask the Night from Fink -- and Fink has intrigued us with the fine collaborative pairings Art in Manila and last year's excellent, more experimental electronic outing O+S.
But it seems logical -- and welcome -- that Taylor and Fink are back together again. For our money (and theirs, hopefully) the combination of these two voices wrapped around a ballad of graceful, impossibly intimate melancholy is the epitome of sublime alt-pop. Recorded in the hills of Asheville, NC with producer Eric Bachmann, Drawing Down the Moon reflects both a maturity in approach and sly nod to the stylistic center, hardly mainstream fare but with subtle touches that promise the songs a wider, more commercial appeal. Lead track "Don't Leave My Mind" is a swaying slice of sweet, ethereal charms, voices entwined in delicious harmony as the percussive beats and gentle jangle swirl beneath the surface.
Discography
Azure Ray (WARM, 2001)
Burn and Shiver (WARM, 2002)
Hold on Love (Saddle Creek Records, 2003)
Drawing Down the Moon (Saddle Creek Records, 2010)
Azure Ray - Hold On Love
Label Saddle Creek
Release Date Oct 07, 2003
1. Devil's Feet, The
2. New Resolution
Directed by Sam Jones
3. We Are Mice
4. Look to Me
5. Drinks We Drank Last Night, The
6. Across the Ocean
7. If You Fall
8. Sea of Doubts
9. Dragonfly
10. Nothing Like a Song
11. These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
12. Hold on Love
Not to worry, though, as "The Drinks We Drank Last Night" and the title track return to achingly fragile business as usual. With their soft yet powerful-as-prayer voices caressing each other over ghostly acoustic guitars, theremins, and distantly echoing beats, Azure Ray aren't about to lose their twin crowns as queens of slowcore, but thanks to Bachmann, they sound ready to occasionally leave the castle.
Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor are Azure. On Hold on Love, the ladies' third full-length album, Azure Ray lets out an eloquent, reverberating, satisfying breath. Saddle Creek. 2003.
A marked departure from earlier Ray releases, HOLD ON LOVE finds the exquisite vocal duo of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor--working under the guidance of producer Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf)--adding a bevy of real and electronic instruments, to their usual lonesome acoustic sound, with an almost-mainstream result. The Sarah McLachlan-style glossy beats and strings of "New Resolution" and the bouncy sunshine of "If You Fall" will have the pair's melancholic fan base wiping away their tears in disbelief. There's even a merry harpsichord break in the sweeping "Nothing Like a Song."
Azure Ray: Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor.
Rolling Stone (3/4/04, p.66) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[Fink and Taylor] use spare electronics, acoustic guitars and subtle strings to back up their arty lyrics about gentle lovers and broken hearts."
CMJ (10/13/03, p.8) - "...Not only do the velvet-voiced crooners push the beats up in the mix, but the songs themselves are more upbeat and brighter than past efforts, piercing a ray of sunshine into the hearts of the gothic femme-folk duo's ballads..."
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