My CD order showed up today. Right now I’m listening to the first track from Hem’s ‘Eveningland’ which is even more stunning than anything off their debut. The band’s grown from 4 members to 8 and recruited the Slovak National Radio Orchestra to fill out the sound even further.
Live gigging has made Sally Ellyson’s voice even more assured and the album sounds like it had a real budget instead of being recorded in bits and pieces over several months. The fourth track, ‘Redwing’, is enormous. I couldn’t imagine ever putting something like that down to tape.
edit: It turns out that the album was recorded with Dreamworks money, but then Dreamworks fell down went boom. That’d be why it sounds so incredible then.
