A Forest Of Stars + saxophone = Ashenspire
Decent, nothing special.

They will probably never lose the A Forest Of Stars comparisons, but I like this record a lot. One of the few I replayed a few times this year. Surprising amount of saxophone, also surprisingly explicitly political (which given the state of the UK and what their first album was about was to be expected, but still)

It's an interesting album to say the least, the sound is very original, and the concept itself is tremendous, although as bizarre as it seems, the songwriting is actually rather impressive for the most part. There's some mid way sections that don't really work for me, other parts do, so it's fairly inconsistent imo. The way in which the songs are structured seem a little avent-garde'ish as opposed to atmospheric imo, and I believe that it's a very bold move to have this amount of saxophone use, but it does work.

Another great work.

Actually like this a bit more than A Forest of Stars works, Ashenspire has proper climaxes whereas I feel A Forest of Stars tends to meander a lot more

The poetry on this album is above and beyond anything I've heard or read lately, especially on "The Laws of Asbestos". Encompassing the brutal doings of Capitalism in our modern world and the struggles of the working class. I LOVE this album!

I was listening to this album while flying, there was a consistent turbulence in the whole flight and the combination of the turbulence and the circular nature of some of the beginning tracks gave me a mini anxiety attack. I checked out the lyrics and they are quite hard hitting and well written. It's impossible not to make a comparison with "A Forest of Stars" because of the dramatic nature of vocal delivery. The swirling musical experience present in this whole album makes it a fairly unique experience for me, something that I am always on the look out for.