Drawing Down the Moon

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a digital download coupon! It's been nearly seven years since celebrated duo Azure Ray released their critically acclaimed album Hold on Love. It's been a long wait for music fans, but thankfully that wait is about to come to an end. The highly anticipated full-length from Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor is a sublime future classic titled Drawing Down the Moon. The record was produced by Eric Bachmann at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, mixed by Michael Patterson in Los Angeles, CA and features guest appearances by Andy LeMaster and Liz Durrett. With their three prior full lengths and the November EP, the duo drew fans from around the globe with their transcendent songwriting and stunning vocals - Drawing Down the Moon is an even more impressive and beguiling delight. Drawing Down the Moon opens to drops of harp wrapped loosely in luscious vocals that wind through a fairytale melody; "Wake Up, Sleepyhead" is a perfect introduction to the record, a lullaby to stir the senses. "Signs in the Leaves" is haunting - a devastating tale of giving up someone you love and then longing for them with your entire being. If heartbreak has ever sounded more beautiful, we have never heard it. The record closes with "Walking in Circles," a track which embraces and envelopes the listener. Subtle but striking guitar finds itself laced through pointed, poignant lyrics on time and emotion: "we lament with the passing of time / hoping we never show it." Azure Ray are famed for their bittersweet melancholy, and Drawing Down the Moon is a perfect ode to their harmonious musical gifts. Twelve flawless songs worth waiting every second of those seven years for.