Vampyr

A lack of more detailed reviews made me just buy the album and I'm glad I did!All I have to compare this to is their "big" album, "Ausserwelt", which is so dense with atmosphere. For those who don't know, this is an instrumental band with multiple guitars involved and drums; They do a sort of dark post-rock/metal type hybrid, if you need a genre to find direction. Really good stuff that I'd love to hear live one day.So this album, from what I understand, is meant to be a musical score to the early classic horror film, "Vampyre". Awesome concept! The music runs the gamut of shorter and longer songs, and also from being ambient in tone to the more full breadth, wall of sound type of loud post-rock/metal "building" song structures.Upon first listen, I was a little bummed because the whole first half of the album is really quiet and subtle, something I was ready to live with and the album would just get put in with my ambient/drone collection, but then the last handful of songs had the familiar YONL sound. The album is like extremes of what they do best from the light and heavy sides.Next thing to do is find a copy of the Criterion Collection release of the "Vampyre" film at the library to match the score up and have that experience!Thanks for the music, Year of No Light, and hope you'll keep making grrat music!