Celestiial-Where life springs eternal

Bindrune
2010

Have you ever gotten really quiet and listed to sounds outside like birds, the rain or insects? I am sure you have and it can be an up lifting experience, but would you buy an album of it? Even more is it possible to mix nature sounds with instruments and have the results turn out to be even more powerful than the individual parts? That's what Celestiial attempt here. By the title you may have already guessed that thry try to create songs that will make you think of Spring and new life. So there are lots of birds chirping, waterfalls and various levels of rainfall. In between there are bits of music with the typical instruments you would expect from a doom band plus a harp on some songs too. The doom elements are scattered indeed with very singular notes and beats stretched out across the landscape of nature noises. A few times the notes are thick enough to draw you to them. At other times it sounds like feedback or I imagine someone sitting back in a recliner tapping the strings every so often with all the feeling of someone flicking a fly off their nose. Yes, the results are mixed. The idea behind the album isn't bad, but the results contain far too much filler. Most of the album is like background music, but it's rarely engaging. Even if there are birds chirping and constant waterfalls are going it still becomes tedious after a while. They aimed for vibrant and ended up with almost an hour of cold and dull results.