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- Burn and Shiver
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Azure Ray
Released 2002

Favorite Cities
03:44
2,034 plays

Seven Days
03:35
1,835 plays

Rest Your Eyes
02:39
1,820 plays

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- 1
- Favorite Cities
- 03:44
- 2,034 plays

- 2
- The New Year
- 03:44
- 1,400 plays

- 3
- Seven Days
- 03:35
- 1,835 plays

- 4
- Home
- 03:13
- 1,423 plays

- 5
- How You Remember
- 04:14
- 1,329 plays

- 6
- Trees Keep Growing
- 03:16
- 1,432 plays

- 7
- A Thousand Years
- 02:39
- 1,404 plays

- 8
- While I'm Still Young
- 04:57
- 1,089 plays

- 9
- Your Weak Hands
- 03:14
- 1,126 plays

- 10
- We Exchanged Words
- 02:45
- 1,178 plays

- 11
- Raining in Athens
- 04:10
- 1,796 plays

- 12
- Rest Your Eyes
- 02:39
- 1,820 plays

album review

True to form, Azure Ray delivers another 12 tracks of curiously beautiful but quite intense melancholy on 2002's Burn and Shiver. Not since Lisa Germano dropped Geek the Girl almost eight years before has music so stark and yet lovely made it beyond the dark confines of somebody's troubled mind and onto the brightly lit shelves of (only the best) record stores. Well, troubled might be too harsh a word, as Azure Ray never approach the outwardly depressive lyrical statements of Germano on Burn and Shiver, but Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor do have a certain fascination with darkness. Just as publicized, these two musicians demonstrate a knack for finding an emotional sweet spot with their dreamy harmonies, releasing any and all tension built by their down-tempo musings. The opening cut, "Favorite Cities," and the thrilling "How You Remember" are both prime examples of this dichotomy that is almost the duo's signature. Azure Ray would rate high on anybody's mope-core scale, but listeners hoping to drown themselves in despondence should be aware of the warmth that exists just beneath the surface of Burn and Shiver. ~ Vincent Jeffries, All Music Guide