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- Summary: Magik Magik Orchestra string arranger Minna Choi joined on the second release for the Massachusetts-based duo of Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala.
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- Record Label: Hardly Art
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop
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| Eyes cast into the night Searching for someone You needn't stare so long It's time enough for us To fall into dreams No hands covering your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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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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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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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 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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Feb 6, 2014Its pulse never rises above soporific levels.
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