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Alternative PressJan 27, 2014Everything is organic, unforced and so subtly constructed that much of the time you don't so much hear the songs as feel them. Beautiful. [Feb 2014, p.91]
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Feb 7, 2014The songs here have lost none of the lonely strength of their earlier material, and the band’s performances are no less gorgeous; but the new strength of Gem Club is that their music is capable of being just as joyous as it is devastated, and the result is powerful.
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Jan 27, 2014These are intimate bedroom ballads of the highest order, music that embodies the bleak essence of a snowy day, rain streaming down a window pane or cloudless grey skies. In other words, the perfect soundtrack for this cold, winter season.
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Jan 27, 2014These are not songs which will not change the world, and they will probably never be a huge band--but songs as beautiful and honest as these will always be huge for some people.
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Jan 28, 2014There are elements of yearning found on In Roses that, while well-intentioned and often spellbindingly beautiful, are lost in the grand scheme of the broad, willful instrumental experimentation between Barnes, cellist Kristen Drymala and vocalist Ieva Berberian.
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Feb 10, 2014In Roses is almost as delicate, but is a pleasant step up from its predecessor thanks to wormier melodies and heightened chemistry between co-vocalists Christopher Barnes and Ieva Berberian.
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Jan 29, 2014The new splashes of color are welcome, and they help to lend In Roses a degree of character that wasn’t always present in Gem Club’s earlier music.
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MagnetFeb 21, 2014It's a transformative, fluidly orchestrated moodscape of dappled piano figures, synthesizer washes and swelling strings, horn and bell tones. [No. 106, p.54]
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Jan 29, 2014In Roses lets him further elaborate his delicate elegies, but his songs tend to live best when he grows them himself from start to finish.
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Jan 28, 2014In Roses is kind of a horrible record in a sense, praying on emotional weakness so aggressively--but, it's so achingly gorgeous, that it's hard not to dive in with a complete disregard for state of mind.
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Jan 27, 2014As a collection of unabashedly melodramatic, dear-diary poetic, and tastefully lush happy/sad dream pop anthems, In Roses delivers the goods with the sort of restrained panache that’s sure to win over the NPR crowd.
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Feb 6, 2014Its pulse never rises above soporific levels.