The Last Bright Light

The Last Bright Light Artist: Mostly Autumn
Label: Cyclops Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 054421298621
EAN: 0054421298621
ASIN: B00005EBS6


Release Date: 2001-05-01

The Last Bright Light


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Tracks:

  1. ...Just Moving On
  2. We Come And We Go
  3. Half The Mountain
  4. The Eyes Of The Forest
  5. The Dark Before The Dawn
  6. Hollow
  7. Prints In The Stone
  8. The Last Bright Light
  9. Never The Rainbow
  10. Shrinking Violet
  11. Helms Deep
  12. Which Wood?
  13. Mother Nature

Album Description

From this great new Prog Band out of the UK, comes this masterful songwriting that comprises Celtic Rock and jigs plus some stunning flowing guitar work.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Mostly Awful.......2004-04-01

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......Oh sorry, I fell asleep again listening to Mostly Autumn's "The Last Bright Light". What an utterly boring and naive record this is. To make matters worse, the songs are practically strangled to death by amateurish vocals and silly lyrics. Whoever said that Mostly Autumn would appeal to Pink Floyd and Marillion fans has obviously never heard much from either of those bands.

Musically it's a disaster. Bryan Josh can barely carry a tune - and his quaver of a voice, at all times just outside the required key, drags the songs down like a lead weight. "Half The Mountain" suffers the most, as Josh's attempts at even the most fundamental vocalisms ("..all of my heart is burning slowly...") sound like Alfalfa fronting latter day bad Marillion. "The Dark Before The Dawn" begins promisingly enough with an foreboding orchestral segment reminiscent of classic Renaissance. But the song drifts into an inexplicable Hooverphonic-style verse and is eventually redeemed by a decent guitar solo.

The shorter songs are laughable - just more little musical walks through the shire. This band needs to watch something other than "Fellowship..." on the tour bus. Second vocalist Heather Findlay's voice is nice enough, but doesn't come near deserving the props she gets. She has a very limited range, and herein lies the problem with the entire band. They all need to expand their ranges if they expect to expand their appeal. They probably COULD be great, but this album isn't a signpost of their potential.

Apparently there is a sizeable market for this kind of music. Sadly, instead of living up to it's "progressive" and "Pink Floyd" tags, it barely qualifies for the second stage at Lilith Fair. It's albums like this that perpetuate the "unicorns and faieries" myth about progressive music.

5 out of 5 stars mostly unknown, but..........2003-02-25

Do you like Pink Floyd, Loreena McKennitt or Marillion at their best ? Do you like music with strong melodies, dreamy atmosphere and awakening by stormy guitars ? Then you must like the group, it is mostly unknown, but quite exceptional.

5 out of 5 stars "IN COLOURS OF TIME WE KNOW WHO WE ARE...".......2003-01-15

"What a gift, the starry sky
Scatters tune across the world
The chorus of a bird in flight
in the wind a sense of change
As we all know in our hearts
Nothing will remain the same."
[From "We Come And We Go."]

Have you ever purchased a cd on impulse, not knowing exactly why? Have you ever then listened to it but was not able to comprehend it fully? Yet you heard something. SOMETHING. And because of that Something, you kept the cd close because you knew it was meant for you to find and it was actually a part of you that was to be discovered one night? And oh, what a special, magical night it is when you discover it--you understand! TONIGHT.

This is regenerative Music. Wow! It has a dreamy affect that reminds me a little of Pink Floyd and some Loreena McKennitt. (DOUBLE WOW!) Yet I have never heard anything quite like this! What a intricate collaboration of fluid, delicate, translucent, pure, reflective, inspiring and aspiring Music for the soul! Thoughtful lyrics, lush voices, estactic instrumentation! Breathe this in deeply and allow yourself to be lifted to the clouds. This sounds like the music to a lucid waterfall dream I had--a dream so real that I can feel it now. NOW.

"Hollow" is speaking to me strongly, the song feels like a trickling stream which ebbs and flows until it gushes yet, at the same time, the lyrics are rather melancholy. But not to me! It fires me up as I realize I can change anything, any circumstance and make it what I want it to be. Now isn't this what Music should do? Oh and I must comment on "Shrinking Violet"--wait there are no words...the beauty overtakes me. Findlay is to be applauded here! Wow, she sings like an angel!

"I remember dancing as a child
a careless confidence danced with me
Whatever happened to the sun?
Only seemed to notice it when it had gone."
["Shrinking Violet"]

Hard to pick a favorite song because they all have shining moments of glory. But right now, as I listen to "Mother Nature," I'd have to choose it:

"Time to look and see
In colours of time we know who we are
Breathing the air that is sweet...
SOMETIMES..."

Let the beauty of MOSTLY AUTUMN inspire you to...

SOAR!

4 out of 5 stars Uniquely Brilliant.......2002-12-14

Mostly Autumn is an interesting band for they're rightfully considered progressive rock but with a slight celtic accent, which is really quite fascinating because I've never heard this kind of fusion before, and I've listened to a fair share of experimentation's when it comes to different genres colliding as one... I love music that's adventurous so Mostly Autumn has been a golden find for me.

The lyrics as well as the singers, which trade-off from Josh to Heather, are usually dark and moody but are always painstakingly beautiful, so to me Mostly Autumn seem to be leaning dangerously close to becoming labeled as alternative goth-rock...(that is if they're not careful). May it be that they decide to follow down this path than I'll gladly be willing to tread along that road with them for I'm a huge fan of goth-rock, industrial and darkwave. I really don't see them making that drastic of a change though so, before I get carried away with myself, I better move on before I give you die-hard fans a heart-attack :)

I love how the album alters from subtle tunes like "Hollow" and "Shrinking Violet" (my absolute favorite!-SIMPLY GORGEOUS!) to more electrifying tunes like "We Come and We Go" and "The Dark Before the Dawn", which is absolutely amazing for it features lilting celt flutes with a progressive drum beat and an electric guitar towards the middle.

Another marvelous song is "Helms Deep", which is a very upbeat instrumental that starts out with a celtic rock rhythm that soon becomes entangled in what sounds like an electronic organ, which is probably conducted from a keyboard (not to mention the uilleann pipes!), and ends with piercing guitar playing amidst the same driving celt beat. And although 'The Last Bright Light' is fainter and more restrained in sound than most other progressive rock bands, it's good to have an equal balance between the fast and the mellow so this album definitely gets my praises for that...

All in all, 'The Last Bright Light' by Mostly Autumn is a very good album and I highly recommend it to fans of progressive rock that's a bit on the soft side.

5 out of 5 stars One of the tops bands in Europe and very soon in the US!!.......2002-09-07

Hace un par de semanas, recibì una llamada del MegaGisbon Ricardo donde me dijo haber leìdo una crìtica de Mostly Autumn redactada por Lord Chimp de este disco...Procedì a leerla y decidì comprar el CD a como diera lugar....Añadir o quitar sobre el juicio realizado por Chimp serìa pretensioso...Mostly Autumn es quizàs la mejor banda progresiva actualmente, poco conocida en USA hasta el mes de octubre donde estaràn brindando un concierto (con Mostly estarà Rick Wakeman en los teclados) junto a Necktar.Tenemos que agradecer a la casa disquera Cyclops el apoyo que està brindando a las bandas progresivas en Europa al punto que el rock progresivo ha vuelto a estar de moda en esas latitudes......Si no tiene este CD, revise su colecciòn, pues, en mi opiniòn, esta incompleta...

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