The Ember Days is another band that didn’t really hold onto my attention until hearing more and more of their music. I fell asleep one night with The Ember Days EP in my CD player and woke up later wondering why I was listening to Ester Drang. This thought alone made me listen to this EP over and over again and what I heard was sounding less and less like one of my favorite ambient rock bands and more like something else. I love bands that play with different sounds and styles and merge them all together to create a single, unified musical experience. This is true in both their 2008 EP and previous album, Your Eyes Light Up, where lead vocal duties are shifted back and forth and even with several great voices in the band they bring themselves to shut up completely and give us some of the most beautiful instrumentals imaginable. This instrumental sound, though similar with the many other bands playing this kind of music, doesn’t just bridge the gap between songs but weaves us in and out of emotions and is even more evident in the recent Finger Painting EP where instrumentals are the driving force behind songs with simple lyrics simply sung. Even after so many listens It Is Well still takes my breath away. This is the worship album I’ve always been looking for. I can’t wait to hear what comes next.
You can download the Finger Painting EP, The Ember Days EP, and Your Eyes Light Up for free at Come&Live!
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