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Alternative PressMoon is bith dark and sweet, its elegiac tones creating a distinct mood that is at the same time beautiful and heartbreaking. [Oct 2010, p.112]
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Bachmann's contributions play a back-seat role to those by Taylor and Fink, who sound as convincing after a seven-year break as they did during Azure Ray's heyday.
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Instead of being tired, Drawing Down the Moon feels loaded with nostalgia, like being welcomed home by an old and very heartsick friend.
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Dec 13, 2010Listening to this record is something like meeting up with an old friend, one who hasn't developed any bad habits or annoying quirks in the intervening years.
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The upside is that it sounds warmly familiar, a reminder of why we missed them in the first place, but the downside is that the album gives very few indications of what Fink and Taylor have learned during their hiatus.
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MojoDec 15, 2010Ghostly lullabies from the Birmingham, Alabama two. [Jan. 2011, p. 105]
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Dec 13, 2010It's a warming blanket of an album, here for you to wrap up in. However, beneath an enchanting surface there's not much to warrant being played over and over again.
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Dec 13, 2010Drawing Down The Moon marks a welcome return for Azure Ray, and makes for an oftentimes exquisite listening experience. It's just a shame that, when it comes to the songs themselves, much of the beauty is only skin deeP.
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Dec 13, 2010They do rest a bit comfortably on what they do right, circumventing the idea of exploring new territory. This is, of course, a curse and a blessing. In presence or not, Azure Ray's stark simplicity will always remain intact.
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Q MagazineDec 9, 2010First album in seven years by dreamy Alabama duo. [Jan. 2011, p. 135]
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Under The RadarYet for all the lost time, the duo;s sound is virtually unchanged from 2003's Hold On Love, or for that matter their 2001 self-titled debut. [Summer 2010, p.77]
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Drawing is occasionally eager and unstoppably pleasant, but just as often drifts as dazzles.
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With never any hurry or need to their lyrics or their vocals, with only dreamy soulfulness that sounds too content and comfortable wallowing in grief to want for much else-I just don't see what's very necessary about this album.
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The collection itself is haphazard; what's worse is that the individual tracks build and remain suspended in mid air by very thin and awkward threads, rarely growing into full-fledged arrangements.