Autumn Tears are a band from Billerica, Massachusetts that has been featured before in this zine and plays a mixture of neo-classical, cinematic score and world music and this is a review of their self released double album "The Air Below The Water".
Operatic female vocals start off the album while the music also brings in a great amount of cinematic soundscapes. Violins and cellos are also a very huge part of the recording along with some songs also adding in a decent amount of tragic sounding pianos and the music also brings in a lot of neo-classical elements.
Orchestras are also utilized quite a bit throughout the album while also giving the music more of a symphonic feeling. When snare drums and percussion are utilized they bring in more of an epic atmosphere along with all of the tracks sounding very different from each other as well as adding in some goth and ethereal touches.
Trumpets, French horns, flutes, clarinets and trombones are also added on some of the tracks along with some male vocals also being utilized at times. Some of the songs are also long and epic in length along with one track also introducing nature orientated field recordings onto the album, as the album progresses a brief use of whispered vocals can also be heard and the recording also adds in a good amount of world music influences. The production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover darkness, esoteric and mythological themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Autumn Tears and if you are a fan of neo-classical, cinematic score and world music, you should check out this double album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Sentient Idols" "The Air Below the Water" "Closer to the Sun" and "And The We Disappear". 8 out of 10.
https://autumntears.bandcamp.com/.
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