My Autumn Empire Dreams Of Death & Other Favourites CD

2015 release, the fourth album from self- taught multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Thomas Holton AKA My Autumn Empire. This release marks a departure from the rich multi-layered classic pop sound of The Visitation (2014), which garnered favorable reviews and BBC radio play, and instead presents lo-fi song fragments which inhabit the, at times strange, space between folk-pop and alternative indie. Holton wrote the album on acoustic guitar, often recording directly onto 4-track, utilizing dusty analogue circuitry to filter and process certain elements. By interspersing lyric with instrumental passages akin to his work as epic45, Holton arrived at an impressionistic version of the My Autumn Empire sound. The title Dreams of Death and Other Favorites reflects the nature of the album and seeks to illustrate and explore the themes of memory and nightmare.