Happy Like an Autumn Tree

Artist: Cyann & Ben
Label: Locust
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 656605706429
EAN: 0656605706429
ASIN: B0002ZDWL2

Release Date: 2004-10-19

Happy Like an Autumn Tree

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Tracks:

Circle
(Silences and Little Melodies For...)
Gone to Waste
(Close to Discovery)
Moment Nowhere
(Tide)
Summer
Obsessing and Screaming Voice in a Shell

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Album Description

French quartet Cyann & Ben create a dark and worrying universe tinted with melancholic beauty. Their debut album, Spring, was a hazy calliope ode. Happy Like An Autumn Tree continues to traverse the seasons with a captivating album that's as rich and beguiling as the fall's harvest, bearing the short lived fruits between the summer's sweat and the winter's crisp chill. Happy Like An Autumn Tree is a hypnotizing, oneiric collection of epic rock for our favorite season.

Customer Reviews:

pure bliss.......2004-12-17

I haven't yet heard their first album, but this one's great, and I'll definitely buy whatever else they've got out there. Tracks 5, 7 and 8 in particular. The songs can be somewhat repetitive at times (hypnotic?), but they all change and build in unexpected and sometimes epic ways. Some of the songs are really just snippets, so it's more of an EP, really, and that's why I docked it a star. It should be priced accordingly. Despite this minor quibble, if you like M83 and the most energetic moments of shoegazers like Slowdive, it's well worth checking out.

A welcome follow-up.......2004-10-30

Cyann & Ben are back, thankfully, and sooner than I would have expected. I was eagerly anticipating this album, and wasn't disappointed. Generally more intense and driving than Spring, the latest release is also more musically diverse. The addition of electronically modified feedback washes are new, and there's more (analog) synthesizer work, as well as a more pronounced organ, which lends the album the same haunting sound by rather different means (although there is still a rich mix of acoustic instruments). The laconic vocals are much the same, but we hear less of Cyann on this release. A minor complaint, but she does have a lovely voice. It's certainly the mark of a strong band to be able to vary their method but still retain a recognizable and unique sound. Now how long will I have to wait for more? Now that they've given us two very strong releases, I'll have higher expectations than I do with most groups these days.

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