| · Sylvia Plath's favourite band. I'm so depressed.
Marathon songs and my short attention span are never the best combo. I was in high spirits before putting on the headphones and settling into the mellow soundscape of Raising the Fawn’s by the warmth of your flame EP. As I found out, it's put-your head-in-the-oven music. The soft vocals and melancholic melodies are sad tearjerkers. Where artists such as Songs: Ohia or the Sea and Cake make you sad before bringing you up with a sense of redemption, Raising the Fawn is just kinda depressing.
John Crossingham (co-founder of Broken Social Scene and Raising The Fawn) drives this album with quiet lyrics and delicate strumming. The hypnotic "The Chicago World Expo" is great and manages to keep you holding on for the entire seven minutes and 13 seconds, but ideally, for such dramatic musical arrangements, a full-length album would have been better. It would keep the listener in the dark for a little while longer – one must be allowed the time to wallow properly.
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