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- Summary: The duo of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor return with a six-track release produced by Andy LeMaster and Todd Fink of The Faint.
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- Record Label: Saddle Creek Records
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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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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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).
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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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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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Q MagazineNov 21, 2012It doesn't quite touch the invention of the people who inspired it. [Dec 2012, p.100]
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Sep 5, 2012There are germs of interesting ideas here and there, but ultimately one gets a certain feeling when listening to this particular Saddle Creek band du jour.
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