It takes alot to stand out nowadays if yer a band striving to create beautiful, epic instrumental rock - the indie scene is deluged with bands that are following in the well worn footsteps of Mogwai, Isis, Explosions In The Sky and Godspeed You Black Emperor. It's a sound that we love, all moody brooding guitar arpeggios exploding into massive crescendos and melodies sprawling out across the horizon. The Autumn Project are one of a handful of bands that I think are just as adept at creating huge, majestic instrumentals as the bands that helped to define instrumental rock at the turn of the century, not only are these guys amazing at writing utterly gorgeous melodies that float and linger over their propulsive drumming, but they also know exactly when to crank the distortion and erupt into grainy walls of crushing distorted riffage and turn their pretty instrumentals into 'dozing blissmetal blasts. We've listed the other two albums from The Autumn Project,

2005's reissue of their first album Fable and 2006's A Burning Light, and this is their second, released on the band's own Zu Records label and featuring six numerically titled tracks. Gorgeous and intense, moving between darkly ominous shadows and sun-blazed peaks, the band interweaving guitar and baritone guitar with heavy delay effects with lush layers of electronic textures, mysterious vocal samples and spacey keyboards. The drumming delves into some powerful heavy rhythms at times that are similiar to A Minor Forest or Mogwai. Just like their other albums, parts of this continue to remind me of The Cure's Disintegration if The Cure were actually a dustbowl outfit sculpting metallic-tinged dreamrock. Fans of likeminded cinematic instrumentalists Souvenir's Young America should check TAP out, not that the bands sound so much alike, but their use of contrasting pretty/heavy parts and windswept atmosphere kinda have the same vibe. Although where when SYA get heavy, those guys flatten ya with some primordial sludge riffage, The Autumn Project instead build up into heavily distorted crescendos that sounds more like Nadja or The Angelic Process. These guys are one of my favorite instrumental, "post-rock", epic outfits, as powerful and emotive as anything from Mono, Pelican, or Explosions In The Sky, we just kep coming back to their albums over and over again, they're that great!