Listeners were impressed with The Autumn Project's second full-length (well, we were, at least), so they've reissued their debut, an hour-long document of a cinematic rock band figuring out where they fall within the Labradford/Sigur Rós continuum. Contrary to what their emo-as-fuck moniker might suggest, no particular mood or tone ever wins out, but that's fine -- the threesome proves quite flexible, whether they're indulging teenage air guitar fantasies over Algebra II-level math drumming ("Right/Left Thinktank"), blocking the sun with looping ambient drones ("The History of Easterly Migration Westward"), or wrapping faint acoustic guitar tones in wintry electronics ("The Dustbowl Rose Again"). Whatever the band's surface aesthetics, most of Fable's songs suffer from a lack of movement -- either too little or none at all. It isn't surprising, then, that The Project are most interesting during "The Buffalo Vs. The Bottomless Cliff", in which they jerk between translucent synth interludes, delay pedal overtures and a final, punishing rockout.