- Record Label: Bella Union
- Release Date: Sep 27, 2011
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Oct 12, 2011Gracious Tide, Take Me Home is a luminous, lilting, lovely debut album, and a perfect mood piece as the nights begin to draw in.
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Nov 11, 2011It's deeply dreamy pop, not unlike Beach House (with whom Lanterns share a UK label in Bella Union) or Mazzy Star, though their songwriting isn't quite up to snuff with either of those.
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Oct 12, 2011As a debut, as a mark in the sand, Gracious Tide, Take Me Home is an endearing and beautifully drawn modern folk record
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Oct 12, 2011Gracious Tide stays with you like a dream you wish would keep recurring.
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Oct 12, 2011Luckily, the majority of Gracious Tide, Take Me Home plays to the band's beautifully swooning strengths, and in doing so, produces one of the most majestic debuts from a British act this year.
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Oct 12, 2011Gracious Tide, Take Me Home is a frequently stunning and achingly earnest debut effort whose sugary gossamer moments find themselves perfectly underlined with a bitterly sad aesthetic, but it would definitely benefit from the rougher edges that the band bring to their live show.
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Oct 12, 2011Paul Gregory's crackling electronic interventions and homespun production job--listen out for the creaking floorboards in Keep on Trying--do much to roughen the edges, but not enough to give this perfect music real character.
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MojoAug 28, 2013Blanket Of Leaves oozes rueful, autumnal soulfulness; you can almost feel the sea fret during the minimally arranged Ships In The Rain; only A Kingdom, with busy snare drums, hoedown fiddles and raindrop guitars, approaches anything like vigour, offering a welcome change to the mood of wistful languor. [Oct 2011, p.105]
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Feb 21, 2012No, the elements Lanterns on the Lake are using are not new or novel ones, yet something fresh is still at work here.
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Q MagazineOct 25, 2011Another great find from Bella Union, there's not a weak moment on this engaging debut. [Oct 2011, p.124]
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UncutOct 18, 2011This is folk music given the widescreen treatment and a crisp, modern sheen. [Oct 2011, p.91]