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| 1. Western Housing Concerns |
| 2. Hood Is Finished |
| 3. September Brings The Autumn Dawn |
| 4. In Iron Light |
| 5. How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through |
| 6. Houses Tilting Towards The Sea |
| 7. Roads Lead Northwards |
| 8. The Cliff Edge Of Workaday Morality |
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'The Cycle of Days and Seasons' is built up over simple repetive guitar arpeggios, embellished with strings and more ambient drones, found-sound, everyday noises and a handful of strange, effected sounds. There are lyrics - half-spoken male vocals and a more tuneful whisper from the female singer - but, although relevant and well-written they blend into the songs in much the same way as do the assorted noises and effects.
The structure of songs is less elaborate than on their previous release ('Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys'). Melody lines are simple but not the sort that you find yourself unconsciously humming, chords appear more as alternations than as bona fide progressions, harmonies are subtle.
Although the music is tuneful you are not supposed to be listening to the tune, but the mood and feel of the music. The commonplace noises and samples of speech help turn the album into a soundtrack accompaniment to ordinary, everyday life. The mood reflects a sort of stultifying melancholy that seems to associate itself with impressions of England, especially a grey-skied, damp-leafed autumn England.
Despite the slow, downbeat feel to the music I don't find it at all depressing. I enjoy it as redolent of familiar images and experiences. If I needed something to listen to during Autumnal walks, I would bring this album with me. The pastoral mood it evokes is not that of folk or classical idioms, the melancholy is not keen and emotional like that of Elgar's cello concerto or Godspeed You Black Emperor's CD-length laments. It is a very English album.
If you don't like albums dismissively labelled 'depressing', don't buy it. If you like songs to have memorable melodies, hooks and refrains, don't buy it. If you want music that is quietly evocative and gently melancholic, give it a try, listen to it a few times and you won't be disappointed.
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