Azure Ray

Editor's Review:

Accepting heartbreak’s inevitability, Azure Ray assume the stoicism of stepping into a taut lace corset; the pain you put yourself through is easier to bear knowing it’ll make you all the more pretty. With Hold On Love, somber never looked so damned attractive. Tightly bound, this demure and dreamy duo casts their songs in a high-fi mix of strings and pianos, grinding electronic programming and patches of harmonization, making melancholic and purposeful baroque pop. Dark and elegant like E.A. Poe set to music, Hold On Love recalls the hopeful but dreary sentiments of Mazzy Star and the darker moments of Tori Amos’ Under the Pink, but is not without its moments of pointed upbeat-ness (“New Resolution,” “Nothing Like a Song”) and occasional inebriated excellence (“The Drinks we Drank Last Night”).
– Maurice S. Teilmann
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Record Label Saddle Creek Released October 2003

Tracks The Devil’s Feet New Resolution We are Mice Look to Me The Drinks We Drank Last Night Across the Ocean If You Fall Sea of Doubts Dragonfly Nothing Like A Song These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue Hold On Love