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Sep 5, 2012What makes As Above So Below such an effective mood piece are the sparse, forward-thinking arrangements producers Andy LeMaster and the Faint's Todd Fink, Orenda's husband, give the duo's straightforward songs, creating a real sense of tension by contrasting the nature imagery of the lyrics with haunting, otherworldly sounds.
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Sep 5, 2012It's a lovely balance of melancholy and optimism that is classic Azure Ray, yet shows emotional and musical progression.
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Dec 7, 2012Despite its brevity, the songs strike with such languid, metered force they manage to slow time down, stretching an EP's worth of darkly ambient dream pop into a deceptively epic micro-journey.
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Oct 4, 2012At 21 minutes, these six songs come off like a moderately successful experiment, but an entire album might have been too much of a challenge to sustain.
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Sep 14, 2012The collection features spacey landscapes and gentle-though-firm beats layered with those signature nostalgic harmonies.
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Alternative PressSep 6, 2012Azure Ray have traveled even further down into the next level of the dreamscape. [Oct 2012, p.84]
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Sep 5, 2012As Above So Below tells a pretty basic love story, but soaks everything in dreams (though calling Azure Ray "dreamy" this far into their career is borderline cliché).