Athenaeum Of Sin Reviews

A Dark Folk/Dungeon Synth solo artist originally from Türkiye and now residing in Australia. On April 7th 2023, Tir released his latest studio album Awaiting The Dawn, which would gratify Empyrium fans. The album was released through Brilliant Emperor Records.

Introduction:

Tir, Awaiting The Dawn: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.

The First Three Sins of Awaiting The Dawn

Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Tir and his album, Awaiting The Dawn.

The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Nine dancer and balled dawn tracks, that would gratify Empyrium fans

Immediately, the listener presses that play button, and one is welcomed to the opening piece, C’est La Fin (part 1), which welcomes the listener with a clean (warm and beautiful) acoustic strumming. Following suit with the sound of the flute and clean tenor/choir singing. Closing the piece with the sound of the wind and strumming of the acoustic…

One continues their journey with the second piece, Where Shadows Dance, and the remaining seven pieces. Where Tir delivers and provides an epic piece upon the listener’s ears, nine beautiful songs that only consist of acoustic guitar, choir singing/spoken words — simultaneously reaching the sixth piece “A Letter Hooked to the Cloud,” a sorrowful -yet emotional piece that consists of only a violin and the piano – “sinks the heart with sorrowful grey cloud feeling” and various sound FX which consists of thundering rainstorms. The sound of the wind bustling through the speakers, and the sound of nature capture different moods and atmospheres for each song, each song is well arranged and musically scored with perfection.

This brings the listener to the mixing and mastering of the album, which was done by Markus Stock (Empyrium and Sun Of The Sleepless). Although an unheard voice on the album, Markus’s engineering work on Awaiting The Dawn offers us, a deep kinship to the various expressions of Tir’s musical creators. The perfect equilibrium through which we can experience this fruit of art album.

Tir’s second album, Uld Skuld Verdandi (2019), had a significant impact on the scene around the world, already featuring elements that would seed Tir’s sound and mature into Awaiting The Dawn. Part of that album’s success arose from the collaboration with vocalist “Thomas Helm”, most noticeably known for his work with Empyrium and, more recently, Ortnit.

The album comes to an end with the last song, Farewell Balled. We want to give a shoutout to Tir for letting us review his album, Awaiting The Dawn. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.

The Last Three Sins

Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Tir and this album, Awaiting The Dawn.

The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, the whole release and music, including the arrangements, and musical/instrumental composition/score is memorable for us. But what deepens the Awaiting The Dawn relationship and more of a memorable moment, is the hauntingly beautiful voice of Thomas Helm, sounding, more, like an embedded expression vocalist, rather than a guest vocalist.

The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:

The artwork is beautiful — like the music—simultaneously looking at the artwork, this is what the music feels and looks like!

The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:

Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Tir, and his album, Awaiting The Dawn.

This concludes the Tir, Awaiting The Dawn review.