Velure - Care for Fading Embers (2005)

artist: Velure
album: Care for Fading Embers
release date: 2005
label: shock
tags: trip-hop
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1. Music from Outside / 2. Do You Suppose? / 3.Words to Speak / 4. Hide the Fool / 5. Down Again / 6. Define Love / 7. Beautiful / 8. Recall / 9. Vivid and Blue / 10. Music from Outside (A Reprise)

Probably known for remixing Gotye, Velure is quite likely THE Australian trip-hop band and Care for Fading Embers is their only album, but it is a great one. The fact that they bother to incorporate slight influences from stuff like glitch pop (but not in heavy dose, mind you) just spruce up the fact that they are good at making trip-hop. When listening to a song like "Vivid and Blue", you can hear everything that you can expect from a trip-hop band of the present day; however, you don't have to be a "geek" of the genre to appreciate the album, though you might have to be in order to have heard of it... In general, post-2000 trip-hop is a mixed landscape that is not entirely worth exploring, but this is one of the albums that stick out. And their only other release, Songbox EP, is great as well, though more aggressive and elaborate than Care for Fading Embers.