Auburn Lull: In the Driving Seat for 'Begin Civil Twilight'

Dreampop Quartet Auburn Lull are set to release the follow-up to the acclaimed “Cast from the Platform”. “Begin Civil Twilight” will be published on the band’s long-time label-partner Darla and consists of twelve songs and instrumentals, sometimes representing short airy sketches or stretching to almost ten minutes. “Begin Civil Twilight” puts the band around guitarist/vocalist Sean Heenan, guitarist Jason Kolb, guitarist Eli Wekenman, and drummer Jason Wiesinger firmly in the driving seat: For the first time, Auburn Lull have produced every single track on their own, merely inviting over their colleague Ulrich Schnauss to mix one of their pieces (“Coasts”) and add some of his effects on others. On majestically slow-moving compositions such as “Arc of an Outsider”, Auburn Lull take their concept of heavily reverbed songs culled from a peaceful yet mysterious world to new extremes. In a recent interview for Somewhere Cold Magazine, Jason Kolb explained the method of creating their unique sound thus: “We have some secret weaponry! I'm not so sure if the make of processor or pedals matters as much as how you set them up. We primarily use plate reverbs with very very slight modulation as the last thing in our effect chains. Each person has his own settings and own pedals that go before the reverb, but the main goal is mostly about getting rid of "attack" and also being able to quickly shift tonality from soft and muted to very bright and back again.”