What did you expect with a title like that? Slow-core is a particularly boring genre to begin with and best left to the few who can pull it off. When it’s done with no real blueprint, it becomes a meandering, edge-less mess. Featuring Trevor Montgomery formerly of Tarentel, Lazarus’ Songs for an Unborn Sun frightens me from the get-go. It starts out with an ominous rip-off of Pedro the Lion’s earlier work with the title track. Rambling sound affects and gentle guitar strumming get tired just as the creepy background vocals kick in. Sounding like a troll backing a poor man’s TW Walsh, by track six, "Hero" confirms my worst fears. This is direction-less and best left to emo fans in Omaha. If there is anything to be learned from Songs for an Unborn Sun, it’s that bedroom recordings should be restricted by law.
1. Songs for an Unborn Sun
2. Poets the Liars
3. Ocean (Burn the Highways)
4. Boredom Revolt
5. Name
6. Hero
7. Tears
8. The Song Becomes Blood
9. Wind
10. Obviust
11. Born a Friendship
12. Time
1. Songs for an Unborn Sun
2. Poets the Liars
3. Ocean (Burn the Highways)
4. Boredom Revolt
5. Name
6. Hero
7. Tears
8. The Song Becomes Blood
9. Wind
10. Obviust
11. Born a Friendship
12. Time