An eye-opening glimpse at the glorious peaks that can come from despair.
It takes a lot to bounce back when times get dark. For
Amber Run, the time around and after the release of debut album ‘5AM’ was one packed with self-doubt, personal setbacks and a professional crossroads that many bands simply wouldn’t come back from. With the aptly titled ‘
For A Moment, I Was Lost’ the band don’t just come back, but pour that darkness into a refreshing new chapter that signals the band they look destined to become.
A dense and panoramic record, there’s a new found sense that Amber Run aren’t fucking around. Take ‘
No Answers’, a gripping and unravelling epic that takes murmuring synths and twists them into an out of control twister that snarls and menaces with a potent urgency. Straddling that line between vulnerability and intense frustration, it reaches boiling point with the cutting slides of ‘
Island’, the drastic shadows of ‘
Perfect’ and the simmering love-lorn rage of ‘Darkbloom’. For every explosive moment, however, is one of crippling fragility - one that can’t be ignored with the stripped back ‘
Haze’ spine-chilling in its delivery while ‘
Wastelands’ takes stadium-sized choruses and heralds them with an unrelenting honesty that sounds like a cleansing moment of reality in a sea of bleakness.
