||  Artist......: Windfaerer                                         ||
||  Album.......: Breaths of Elder Dawns                             ||
||  Year........: 2021                                               ||

||  Genre.......: Black Metal                                        ||
||  Label.......: Avantgarde Music                                   ||

||  Source......: FLAC/WEB (16bit)                                   ||
||  Encoder.....: libFLAC                                            ||
||  Bitrate.....: 929 kbps avg.                                      ||
||  F.Rate......: 44.1kHz                                            ||

||  Playtime....: 01:03:30 / 458.91MB                                ||
||  R.Date......: 2024-10-19                                         ||
||  S.Date......: 2021-08-27                                         ||
||  Website.....: https://open.qobuz.com/album/jh0owdg5v30wc         ||

||  01. Oxalá                                               8:05     ||
||  02. Depletion                                          11:19     ||
||  03. A Forbidden Path                                    1:26     ||
||  04. Into the Mist                                       7:50     ||
||  05. Astral Tears                                        5:47     ||
||  06. Starcrossed                                         9:12     ||
||  07. Orchard                                             1:21     ||
||  08. Longing to Ascend                                  10:10     ||
||  09. Entombed in Glacial Waves                           8:20     ||

||  Windfaerer's Breaths of Elder Dawns is the black/folk metal      ||
||  quintet's latest and most elaborate output in its more than a    ||
||  decade of existence. As the band from New Jersey puts it,        ||
||  "Breaths of Elder Dawns explores themes of hope, kinship,        ||
||  destruction of the natural world, shattered illusions and        ||
||  longing for the numbing comfort of death. It is a journey of     ||
||  mourning through the ruins of abandonded dreams and              ||
||  aspirations. This record is an homage to a romantaicized past    ||
||  as much as it is a rejection of its glorification.               ||

||  As with previous Windfaerer releases this record was a           ||
||  collaborative effort. Each member brought their own influences,  ||
||  perspectives and compositions and forged them into the spirit    ||
||  of the band. Extensive attention to detail was paid to all of    ||
||  the sonic elements-from the mic placements to the string         ||
||  orchestrations-in an effort to create a towering and expansive   ||
||  sound. Sorrow-laden melodies spiral through rugged, mountainous  ||
||  song structures in a synthesis of vulnerability and power.       ||
||  Breaths of Elder Dawns is a journey through aesthetic            ||
||  desolation and saudade. Here, the light of the sun exposes the   ||
||  anguished disfigurement of the soul".                            ||