After introducing themselves last fall with their self-titled EP (QRO review), Audrye Sessions gives a full showing with their new self-titled LP. Taking all four songs from Audrye Sessions EP, the full-length expands on their grand emo-rock to varying results, but there are also a few other tricks up their sleeves.
Like the EP, Audrye Sessions opens with the catchy, up-bright “Turn Me Off”, but from there the band explores their emo-rock. At first, it is done fairly well with the bigger “Perfect, Sometimes” and especially “Julianna”, with the latter song about a girl having real big pop/rock sensibilities. But then Audrye Sessions dips too deeply into their emo-well, as “Relentless” over-aches in its emo-preen, while “The Paper Face” is run-of-the-mill emo-rock.
However, that bad taste is wiped out with the other three tracks from the EP, most particularly with still-stand-out “Awake” and its impressive showing. “New Year’s Day” and “Where You’ll Find Me” still display the band’s alt-country side well, something the LP probably could have used more of, with only the penultimate “The Crows Came In” bringing that touch back, in stripped alt-folk. Instead, the last third of Audrye Sessions is mostly a return to their bigger emo-rock, with a guitar-grind misplaced alongside it on “Nothing Pure Can Stay”, but a better growth into it from a small twinkle on finisher “Dust and Bones”.
Audrye Sessions picked well for their EP – too well, as those tracks are near the top of their LP. But Audrye Sessions does flesh out the band’s sound and outlook – now they just need to find different album titles…
