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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release for the Danish project of Jannis Noya Makrigiannis features a variety of influences including Danish pop, hip-hop, R&B, and techno.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Feb 3, 2016
    80
    Grasque is never redundant. It is pop without cliches, and avant-garde without boredom. [Jan/Feb 2016, p.55]
  2. Mojo
    Feb 3, 2016
    80
    2012;s Rhine Gold album leant more on burbling electronica, while Grasque pushes further still, into slow R&B jams, chillwave, even George Michael when Makrigiannis uses his higher register. [Mar 2016, p.95]
  3. Feb 23, 2016
    70
    The songs amble through multiple genre divides, most pushing well past the three-minute pop mark. Good thing--it’s the contrasts where the pleasure lies.
  4. Uncut
    Feb 3, 2016
    60
    The results are suitably polishes, but their pleasures are ephemeral. [Mar 2016, p.71]
  5. Feb 19, 2016
    60
    Grasque proves to be the group's most elusive outing to date, favoring icy, often formless melodies that come and go as they please, and existential lyrics that periodically dissolve into ghostly, wordless repetition.
  6. Q Magazine
    Feb 3, 2016
    40
    A collection of electronics-based tunes, drifting, gently paced but surprisingly torpid. [Mar 2016, p.108]
  7. Jun 14, 2016
    40
    The production has gotten bigger, slicker and more surgically clean, but the tunes haven’t.

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