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Fall Sounds

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Velour 100's Fall Sounds is nothing short of amazing. The music is tight in some spots, chaotic in others but done beautifully. Amon's vocals are captivating and hypnotic and add a special element to Trey's music. This is a truly special album.

This treasure will be one of your favorite alternative albums. The combination of voice (Amon Krist) and sound (Trey Many & co.) create an exceptionally enjoyable musical landscape that tours you through a gammut of emotions, from gentleness to fury. You'll discover something a little different with each play, and appreciate it more & more with time!

Here's a lovely gem of an album, that even though I've had it since 97 - I still come back to it for 'that' mood it carries - carries lightly and genuinly, traversing across a bridge of sound from real to unreal. The track "Dub Space" is a wonderfully ethreal ambient track, and the voice tracks carry a certain venerability that's perfect.

Love this group and music! I listened to this music during a time of bereavement and this helped so much.

"Fall Sounds" is a pensive, floating album, with ethereal guitar progressions and ethereal female vocals. Beautiful music for times when you're feeling pensive.

I just learned about this group in 2002 on Amazon.com...only to find out that they've already disbanded. I now have this album and want to get their other album, "Of Colour Bright."

There is a video of one of the songs from "Fall Sounds" available on the DVD "Tooth & Nail Videography 1993-1999." The video is very fitting to the lovely music.

I got this album when it was fresh on the shelf, and was extraordinarily pleased to find the melodies quite enchanting. The vocals are spellbinding and some tracks hint at the downright weird, which is (by now) expected of the emo-electronica movement, but carried off well. I am content with the album although I find that the strongest tracks are at the beginning and the end, and the middle tracks can sound all alike after awhile. Also: this album will put you in a dreamy mood. Probably not good for long-haul car trips or anything of that sort. (Incidentally, I heard that "Of Colour Bright", the newer album, is better than this one...)

This C.D. rocks. I actually had never heard of Velour 100 until they aired one of their songs on The Real World. Well, I immediately ordered this C.D. and fell in love with it. It combines electronica with new age. It's such an odd combination that it makes something new that can captivate a listener.

They may not be hestitant about expressing their Christian faith, but Velour 100 has as little in common with their Tooth & Nail brethren as Roadside Monument. Surely their sweet, innocuous guitar pop is at odds with the punk attitude of MxPx and 90 Pound Wuss. Velour 100 consistently ride a bed of acoustic guitars, piano, unobtrusive drums and lightly spacey electronic touches over the course of 12 songs whose goal seems to be to dream pop you to death. (Even the album's hardest rocker, "Flourish," hits more like pillows than billy clubs.) Counterintuitively, Fall Songs is front-loaded with the band's most rote and least inspiring numbers; "Stare into Light" and "Autumn Shelter" are by-the-numbers dream pop, the former employing sparse guitar picking and a naked female vocal, and the latter adding weak electric guitar to the tepid mood previously eastablished. "Breeze" is a piano-laden diversion that, while admirable in its vaguely experimental intent, fails to really lead anyplace interesting in its three minutes. Fortunately, the album turns upward at "Evergreen," with its astoundingly gorgeous, upbeat acoustic guitar and sprinkles of tambourine, and "Flourish" finds the band finally breaking out of their trance with a full-on rocker that balances straightforward beauty and noisy nervous energy with the best shoegazers.

While Velour's next album, Of Colour Bright, tossed in an additional male singer and tinkered liberally with the way the vocals sounded, Fall Sounds relies on the straightly-sung female vocals to carry much of its weight. In the band's insistence on not treating the vocals, the singer sounds nice but naked, and is often at the mercy of her strained vibrato that tries too hard to sound pretty. That's the main reason why the 8 1/2-minute instrumental closer, "Dub Space," sounds so refreshing. It's composed solely of holographic guitar fingerpicking and sound effects that include amorphous cymbal washes and what sounds like a rainstick. "Dub Space" will be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever heard a Landing album, but it's a pretty enough conclusion to a pretty enough record, as inconsequential as it is enjoyable.