''First Light's Freeze'' is an album by Castanets, released on October 11, 2005. Ray Raposa described the recording of the album as 'on some the interludes between tracks we had like seven people on them so that is half of the credits right there. But most of the tracks are Rafter oberts Sufjan tevensand I doing lots of overdubs'. The album features contributions by Chris Schlarb and Daniel Carter.

Critical acclaim

Brian Howe from pitchforkmedia.com described the album as ' stringing together disembodied fragments of gothic Americana with brief, freaky interludes', while Heather Pares finds the themes of 'war and friendship' expressed through 'sparkling nighttime laments'. David Bernard in popmatters.com found the album 'consistently captivating' while 'many tracks hum with electronics and crawl along at a codeine pace'. Grigsby of tinymixtapes.com praised Raposa's writing as ' isstrength might lie in melancholy pop songs, and at that, he might be peerless'. Matthew Ozga of prefixmag was less impressed calling the album 'a real snooze musically' while characterising Raposa as a 'relentless obscurantist'. In December 2005, American webzine ''Somewhere Cold'' ranked ''First Light's Freeze'' No. 7 on their ''2005 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame'' list.

Track listing

Personnel

As with the previous release Cathedral, contributors as simply listed as 'performers' without indicating their specific role. * Bridgit DeCook * Chris Schlarb * Daniel Carter * G. Lucas Crane * Gabriel Sundy * Heidi Diehl * Justice Constantine * Nathan Delffs * Nathan Hubbard * Orlando Greenhill * Rafter Roberts * Raymond Raposa * Sayard Egan * Jarvis Taveniere * Sufjan Stevens The album was mixed and mastered by Ero Thomson and Rafter Roberts.

References

{{Authority control 2005 albums Castanets (band) albums Asthmatic Kitty albums Psychedelic folk albums