Lawson & Merrill Release A Wonderfully Cinematic Record

A release from Lawson & Merrill brings out a beautiful and lush soundscape reminiscent of soundtrack or score pieces to film, and it combines gorgeous elements of spacious and ambient undertone with synthesized but orchestral feeling instrumentation and soundscape, bringing together some amazing worlds and creating something you can get engulfed in quickly.

The analogues record starts with the track called "An Arabian Night", which comes in with a cinematic and slow burn reeling you in easily and becoming this dreamy and floating ethereal soundscape that has its moments of intensities that come and go but that's part of the theme and vibe of the track as a whole.

This was a beautiful track that really works amazingly as an introduction to the whole release, although I can tell you there are no two songs that are alike and some surprises around the corners.

The next track is called "Tundra (Dusk, Dark, Dawn", and this one starts with very spacious wind and singular notes that float through the songs ether as it builds up to a synth-driven haunting kind of melody that has a little bit of a dark Edge and also provides this orchestral feel with strings and other textures coming together to create something memorable.

These are pieces of music that are usually between 12 and 15 minutes long and so they're great buildups. They all have such an expansive approach and these particular ways of getting you soaked in overtime and then building into the thematic undertone of the pieces of music themselves.

"A Forest Enchanting" it's a song that does a great job of giving you that vastness as well, and you can tell that these are songs meant to feel ethereal or spread wide so that you can sort of let your mind go free along with them.

I feel like each listener will take these in slightly differently and picture different things in their head as songs unfold, which is part of the fun.

There's something so fantastical about these pieces of music that capture a certain aesthetic and essence that almost feels youthful in a sense.

Duo behind this engulfing and gorgeously alluring record are David Margolin Lawson and David Merrill, who met during audio engineering sessions in New York City.

Both realizing they had a soft spot in their heart for a kind of mid-century electronic style of composition, they decided to begin working together, and obviously it was a match made in heaven.

You can tell these two are on the exact same page with these tracks simply by the way the sounds and textures come together and how the songs unfold and build.

There's definitely some great thought behind the arrangements of these songs, but there's also a certain freedom that lets them breathe, and I feel like that's part of The Wonder of music like this.

That slow build and open-ended freedom to let songs create a mood and bring melody to fruition over time is a beautiful attribute to this style of songwriting.

This is a record for people who love soundtrack and score-type stuff. This is capturing a wonderfully approached method to electronic orchestration, and I hope these guys keep creating music together.

If you are a fan of fantasy movies from the '80s and '90s, this will capture your heart.

You'll have to listen to it and see exactly what I mean, but it's well worth your time to listen to this record.

It's quite a journey that you should certainly let yourself take.

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