Le Carillon is the latest EP offering from The Autumns, a band that already has three EPs and two albums under their belt. The band creates some of the most sonically pleasing pop that hearkens back to the sounds you might have heard while slow-dancing at a sock hop in the fifties (if you had been around back then!). Recorded at the famous Green Room, this disc is produced by Andy Prickett (Prayer Chain, Cush), who has worked with the band on several of their past efforts. All four songs on this disc will whet your appetite for their next full-length CD, and you'll feel as if this EP were just too darn short.
The best tune on the disc is the very poetic "Quite":
All sunk the slumber
Eyes bedewed
Your lips will come unglued
Though tears becloud the sight
Of kites torn asunder
In the blue
A silver spittle slew
We grace wings under the night.
On "Thieves In Blue" there are shades of Spandau Ballet and throughout you can hear the major influence the Cocteau Twins have had on the band (Simon Raymonde has produced several of their releases). The final two songs are "Slow Kiss" and "She Whispers in the Winter Snow." With subtle changes to their evocative, dreamy pop over the years, the Autumns are finally poised to make more than just a blip on the music world radar.
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Other coverage for this album
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