Forest of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2000)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:

Forest of Shadows - Six Waves of Woe (2008)

To mark the start of fall, and to celebrate my having just now found out that Forest of Shadows actually, finally put out another album back in 2018, here's their absolute masterpiece of a demo-turned-debut-EP, Where Dreams Turn to Dust. Sorrowful, atmospheric melodic doom at its finest.

Track listing:

1. Eternal Autumn

2. Wish

3. Of Sorrow Blue

Before my tear-filled eyes

This withering beauty, this eternal autumn

So silent, so silent

More beautifully crushing misery:

Funeral - From These Wounds (2006)

The Fall of Every Season - Amends (2013)

Joan Bibiloni - Silencio Roto (1987)

Solo album by Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Joan Bibiloni. Soothing, nocturnal sounds that fall somewhere between new age and fusion.

If you're one of the weirdly large number of people who have commented recently requesting that I re-up something in FLAC format, or start posting FLACs from here on out: I'm not doing that, for a number of reasons that I won't go into here unless you force me to. Just enjoy the damn music -- or don't -- and if you like it so much, go buy it on Discogs or something.

Track listing:

1. Silencio Roto (Cabecera)

2. Silencio Roto (Tema)

3. Sobrevivir

4. Bajo el azul

5. Contacto azul

6. Easy Walk

7. Nacimientos

8. Caminos del aire

9. Migas

10. Silencio Roto (Versión)

11. Vuelo lento

12. El salto del martín

13. Amanecer azul

14. Mamá

15. Agua profunda

16. Persecución

17. Vuela la hormiga

18. Nacimientos II

19. Walts for Lyle & Pat

20. Alas de seda

21. Refugio

22. Rueda firme

23. Ocasos

Footprints

You'd also enjoy:

Mark Isham - Vapor Drawings (1983)

Jarosław Śmietana - Talking Guitar (1984)

Le Car - Automatic (1997)

Bizarre, minimal synth-driven electro from a short-lived American duo that featured Adam Lee Miller of ADULT.

Track listing:

1. Aluminum Rectangles

2. Personal Auto Attendant

3. Malice

4. Silent Auto Attendant

5. Warm Humans (Radio Edit)

6. 20-20

7. Clean Auto Attendant

8. 24 Hours (Instrumental)

9. Beau Ideal

10. Final Auto Attendant

Now it's all over for sure

If you like this, listen to:

Telex - Neurovision (1980)

Zombie Zombie - A Land for Renegades (2008)

My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse (2006)

Dramatic, epic, neoclassical-infused art rock. Towering, cinematic strings, ghostly guitars, and Shara Nova's elastic, classically-trained vocals. Bring Me the Workhorse explores mortality and mourning via metaphor, story, and direct emotional observation, and it's still (imo) the best MBD. I guess it's more difficult than those of her would-be contemporaries, but I still say this should've been a bigger record.

Track listing:

1. Something of an End

2. Golden Star

3. Gone Away

4. Dragonfly

5. Freak Out

6. We Were Sparkling

7. Disappear

8. The Robin's Jar

9. Magic Rabbit

10. The Good & the Bad Guy

11. Workhorse

I'm afraid to forget you

I am remembering you

You were sparkling

You might also like:

Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters (1987)

Lisa Germano - Lullaby for Liquid Pig (2002)