Fauxliage - Fauxliage (2007)

Tracklist

01. All The World
02. Someday The Wind
03. Draw My Life
04. Let It Go
05. Magic
06. Without You
07. Rafe
08. Vibing
09. All Alone
10. Rafe (Gabin Remix)
11. Rafe (Pacha Remix)

What do you get when you combine the lush electronica band Delerium with the Nashville pop group Sixpence None the Richer? The debut album by Fauxliage. Sixpence singer Leigh Nash has been a guest singer with Delerium, but she now teams up as a full partner with the Canadian band's Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb. The dance beats are dialed down and the melodies have that pop warmth that Nash brought to Sixpence, but the looping grooves and chilled electro-timbres from Delerium remain, especially on tracks like the hook-heavy "All the World." Lyrically, Nash is concerned with love and loneliness for much of the album and tends toward a languid mid-tempo mode that could've benefitted from a few more kick-ass tunes to moderate the mood. It emerges occasionally, like the symphonic electronica cadenza that explodes in the middle of the otherwise wistful "Draw My Life." Despite years in Nashville, there's very little country in Nash's voice, but there is a purity and vibrato-free tone you can hear in country singers from Loretta Lynn to Emmylou Harris. It's a voice that almost demands a more organic, acoustic approach, and Fulber and Leeb provide it, often dialing down the sometimes suffocating synth pads that have marred the last few Delerium releases and replacing them with acoustic guitars and more organic keyboards. Fauxliage doesn't take all of the best from two worlds, but they get a lot of it.

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