Review Summary: Arbor Lights' style finds perfection...
United Kingdom is a place where lately many bands are recording and releasing new records all the time uploading it to the internet so people around the world can listen to it. In the Midlands area is where we can find more bands, specially in Birminghan, where the Post-Rock scene is getting stronger every day.
Precisely there is where the four piece band ARBOR LIGHTS got together, now with almost three years in the business, a single and an EP in their hands released a few days ago their first album entitled HATHERTON LAKE.
HATHERTON LAKE is a beautiful album, where clear and perfectly played instruments take us into ARBOR LIGHTS' bright world. The first song in this album is THE SILENT CITY that begins with a dense cloud of distorted guitars that act as an Intro. When you get to the first minute it seems like we will listen to an AMBIENTAL album but fortunately this changes when, almost in silence, the first chords appear. From there, we can listen to soft guitars companied by shy riffs and perfect rythm from bass and drums that reflect the sound we will listen throught the full album. At the end of this song there is a melodic moment that connects with INTERSTELLAR, song that was selected as first single, and since the first second we can feel how the armonies flow faster that they do in the first song. Interstellar is really dynamic and neat.
As third track we find DAMASCUS, a 13 minutes song that I divide in 3 parts, the first couple minutes flow with soft atmospheres that relax the listener and includes a sea of electronic noises. Before you notice the stillness turns into a powerful theme that gradually and with certain violence fills the room with thundering harmonies. When it seems like it's over, under the decaying buzz a soft and clear guitar begins the final lapse of the song. This "outro" guides us to SILHOUETTES, the most peaceful song in this record.
HATHERTON LAKE's fifth and last song is THE MAYOR & THE DIVER wich starts with slow rythms but as the song advances it grows in strenght and seems like it's going to explode but instead it gently lead us to the most agressive side of the band's sound.
HATHERTON LAKE is on sale as a 100 piece limited edition in CD and available as a name your price (free) download in http://arborlights.bandcamp.com/
