Sunlight Ascending – All the Memories, All at Once
(futurerecordings, 2009)
genre: post-rock, shoegaze, instrumental, ambient
Album Review by Sovereign
Sunlight Ascending is a new band, formed in 2007 by some kids (aged from 15 to 21) in USA. Their music is fully inspired by Radiohead, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, God is an Astronaut and GY!BE. Is a great try and I am thinking that they deserve a lot of attention from fans of classic post-rock and modern shoegaze. They don’t miss anything from the bands that influence them and they have the potential to be better from them. This band could be the future of the saturated genre of post-rock. A fully atmospheric modern rock and a young and fresh music idea! Beautiful melodies and idyllic compositions, a travel in a dream and rigmarole from a sweet newborn baby. The disk is very sweet and it can raise your sentiments and your thoughts, something that all post rock groups who deserve to write music, can do and should do.
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The album: sunlight ascending memories once 2009 rapidshare
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Tracklist:
1. All The Memories, All At Once
2. Four
3. Black Bear
4. Continental Drift
5. Out Of This Place II
6. Out Of This Place
7. Reverse Dragons
8. Ocean Depth/Closing Paths
9. Vanil/Requiescat
Sovereign
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Τα λόγια είναι περιττά, δεν μπορώ να εκφράσω το πόσο όμορφη ήταν η χτεσινή μέρα, 4η αλλά λόγω των ατυχιών η 2η ουσιαστικά, στο φεστιβάλ. Τα σημάδια πάνω μου και ο πόνος στο σβέρκο και στην πλάτη μάλλον αποδεικνύουν, την πώρωση, τον χορό, το κοπανημα που επιδόθηκα για ώρες εκεί. 4 οδοστρωτήρες και ένας ηχητικός σεισμός. Έτσι απλά μπορώ να εκφράσω και να περιγράψω τον ηχητικό θόρυβο που πέρασε από την κεντρική σκηνή, μιας και την μικρή δεν την επισκέφτηκα λεπτό. 
