A review from GothicParadise.com
I guess you can imagine that when Projekt Records signs a new band and advertises them as a great new Ethereal/Shoegazer band you can expect some pretty good music at least. When I put this CD on I was completely blown away. The style of music is right along with other great bands like Siddal and early Love Spirals Downwards. And as I was trying to think about current artists producing this type of music, there really aren't that many, and so while they emulate some of these great bands of the past, they currently stand amongst the few in this specific genre.

With this introduction and description, the reader can imagine the spiralling soundscapes of lush vocals with dreamy guitars on this album. This all comes dramatically to life with each new track as the work progresses. "Waning Faithful" becomes an epic symbol for this genre as the first track to kick it all off. Erin's angelic vocals soar through the air as the acoustic guitar rolls through broken chords and an electric guitar laments in the background. The percussion through each track is slow and just moving enough to give a heartbeat to each song.

Each of these elements play key rolls in the music on this album. As the melancholic electric guitar grows in intensity on certain tracks like "Mystify" and "Fractured", everything else seems to kick in, the percussion and other layered instruments swell into a grand crescendo of majestic unspoken words, while the vocals express the haunting meaning behind it all. But overall the mood remains very subdued and dreamlike with tracks like "A Brighter Light" and the final and title track "Over The Ocean" being the foundation and backbone style to the album.

Of course these select songs named above are just a few of the dozen masterpieces on this album. The smooth guitars and vocals become a tapestry of remarkable patterns throughout the entire album. A great point about this album is the way it flows so smoothly from one song to the next. This makes it so much more enjoyable to listen to the entire album instead of picking out a track here and there or skipping around. The best way to experience it is in a setting where the smooth layers of warmth and sweet ambience caress across your ears and you can hear it from beginning to end.

Once again, a new gem for fans of this sweet, yet remarkably intense music. Be sure to pick this one up! -Jacob

A review from ChainDLK.Org
On Over the Ocean Autumn's Grey Solace delivers an alluring and encompassing piece of shoegazer darkwave. Chilling ambient melodies, ripe with seductive power, mingle with ghostly effect with the female vocals. The vox are svelte and create strange and addictive harmonies with the instrumental soundscape. The blend is seamless. Like two fireflies dancing slow-motion in a river of amber, the vocals and the music with which they waltz entwine with each other in a sad mating ritual whose progeny is this flow of tears, this call of a disembodied and lonely voice crying from over the horizon. A hardened heart indeed it would be that would find none of Autumn's grey solace in these songs, for their power of captivation is formidable and force the listener to transcend his personal genres in the face of sheer musical power. And it's a power that comes from quiet, for never does this group deviate from its practice of music that is restrained and, perhaps, meek, but never weak and always electric within its soul. -Kristofer Upjohn

A review from HighBias.com
Erin Welton's ethereal vocals float sentiments of heartbreak, loneliness and devotion gently over Scott Ferrell's atmospheric guitars on Over the Ocean, the couple's second album as Autumn's Grey Solace. Cynics unfazed by this kind of hazy guitar pop will be unmoved by AGS's traditionalist take on the mini-genre, as it skirts preciousness. But those of us who appreciate the marriage of siren-like singing, tasteful picking and a delay pedal with find songs like "Deserted and Desolate" and "Distant Mother" too charming and pretty to resist. -Michael Toland

A review from Blissaquamarine.net
Although Projekt is primarily associated with gothic music, this band are sure to appeal to indiepop fans. Their sound is atmospheric and reverb-drenched yet strongly melodic dreampop with female vocals. The singer's voice is distinctive, sometimes I think it sounds almost childlike, yet it also has strength behind it. They also add a spacey psych-rock touch to the guitar solos in "Fractured" and "Deserted and Desolate," and the melancholic "The Sadness of Years Past" features a style of guitar playing that seems Mediterranean influenced. Over The Ocean begins with the soothing sound of the sea, which adds to the overall atmospheric feel of the track (and indeed the whole album). The label recommend Autumn's Grey Solace to fans of Love Spirals Downwards, Cocteau Twins and Mira. I'd agree with that, whilst also adding My Bloody Valentine and late-period Secret Shine to the list. This album is quite simply sublime. It doesn't have the darkness of many Projekt releases, but certainly has the beauty. Highly recommended.

A review from Ink19.com
For anyone who has loved desperately and lost desolately, Over the Ocean will be a warm and welcoming companion in the madness. Building achingly lovely, fragile songs around Erin Welton's gorgeous voice and lush keyboards and Scott Ferrell's hypnotic guitar textures, Autumn's Grey Solace picks up where Love Spirals Downward left off. Both earthy and ethereal, Erin's singing alternately swathes you in a warm, loving embrace and strands you in a cold, dark place, waiting for a companion who will never come. Listening to her voice, surrounded with Scott's plucked and strummed and chiming guitars, is like taking a trip to the edge of dream, submerging briefly in the inky waters of nightmare, then finally surfacing in the land of the living once more. A find for fans of heavenly voices, shoegazer guitars and gothic romanticism. -Dave Aftandilian