Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah this is far from autopilot, I’d go as far as to say it dors a great job of what it’s trying to do…I just don’t particularly enjoy it outside of a handful of tracks.

Album Rating: 4.5

Coward

I like the one song I have heard off of this.

Album Rating: 3.5

great gig here, she plays the album in full, followed by some gems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30IJIexCS24

Album Rating: 3.5

autopilot my ass

Album Rating: 3.5

fair enough, vocals are quite special on this record, it's easy to see why it doesn't resonate with everyone

Album Rating: 4.5

Colton doesn’t like when someone doesn’t have a traditional flowy pop voice especially if it’s a female singer

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, I figured. This has nothing to do with having a concept or not, though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I finished reading Orlam- Harvey's epic poem that this album is based on. For something that borrows so much of its imagery through cyclical time within nature/seasons it's surprising that the track listing on this record is out-of-sync to Orlam's narrative, so for anyone interested this would be the chronological track listing:



Prayer At The Gate

Lwonesome Tonight

Seem an I

The Nether-edge

A Child’s Question, July

A Child’s Question, August

A Noiseless Noise

August

Autumn Term

All Souls

I Inside the Old Year Dying

I Inside the Old I Dying



Prayer At The Gate can technically be played first or last, since it appears in Orlam at the start and end, with one couplet being slightly different. The exact poem from the start of the book is the same as the opener though.



I'm not one to usually ever fuck with track listings but I'm fairly immersed in this album so I've got it queued up for later. Personally, I love A Noiseless Noise as the closer, the ending lyrics "go home now love, leave your wandering" are more fitting for finishing the album journey. Though narratively, Ira giving herself over to Wyman during I Inside the Old I Dying is the correct ending, and also happens to be above and away my favourite track from this album.

Album Rating: 4.5

Thank you for this!!! I will listen to it in this order soon

Album Rating: 4.0

She's mentioned in interviews that any given time, seasons and decades in which the story of Ira's year takes place keeps jumbling together as overlapping elements (like having antiquated references of the medieval age and Elvis Presley in the same world). I always assumed that's why the track listing is non-linear; working with that concept on the level of a year passing.



Will check out the order, for sure!

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh that's pretty wild, I tried to avoid interviews before finishing Orlam but I'm ready to see what she has to say about it herself now. I know she insists it's not autobiographical which you have to hope is true given the more disturbing things that happen to Ira in the book.