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Dec 3, 2013It’s the product of a chronic overthinker refining his teeming thoughts into crystalline song, forming an album that doesn't shy away from the gravitas of grand gestures, and, more importantly, the emptiness that follows when they prove to be futile.
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Nov 11, 2013The album puts Krug front and center, armed with nothing but piano and voice. It's a ballsy move, but it pays off in spades.
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Oct 30, 2013Julia is more touching than any Krug record made before it.
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Oct 29, 2013The piano has displaced Krug's veil of intellect and mystery. What remains is something warm, something sentimental, something beautiful. Spencer Krug has never sounded better.
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Oct 28, 2013A classically trained ivory tickler, Krug's compositional style is as esoteric as his prose, lending an unpredictable musicality to the proceedings that allows the listener to forget that they’re essentially listening in on a very intimate solo performance.
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Oct 25, 2013Like the image which adorns the cover, sometimes it’s good to just take in the wonder of the simple things, and the modest but pensive charm of this album is well worth getting lost in.
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Oct 25, 2013Not another album updating the great musical ideas of the past, then, but an album updating the great sentiments: to tell someone how much you need them and that you’d be lost without them. If you’re not in love right now--an album to fall in love with, until then.
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Oct 25, 2013Krug doesn't let the instrumental limitation restrict him and, while the listening experience jarringly contrasts his past body of work, it exposes a rawer, more intimate side of Krug, to much success.
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Oct 25, 2013A far cry from the piano-tinkling heard in formulaic modern pop, Krug’s ivories are often filmic (Barbarian), or musical-theatre enough to evoke Hugh Jackman or Julie Andrews singing amidst a mountainscape (November 2011).
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Nov 19, 2013Such is Krug’s way with words: deliberately or not, he’s weaving a huge tapestry that makes the author clearer to us. Julia With Blue Jeans On is another section in it and is a damned beautiful, it not great one at that.
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Nov 1, 2013This barebones form is less than accessible, but Krug took the risk and consequently produced the most authentic collection of music he’s ever created.
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Nov 14, 2013Julia's impressive discipline rarely gets in the way of its ability to affect; it's all so deeply felt, it's impossible not to feel it, too.
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Nov 18, 2013At the end of this quite exhausting album, it is hard to ascertain whether anything has been resolved. However, if this is what Krug needs to move on, then Julia With Blue Jeans On is a testament to the healing power of creativity.
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Oct 31, 2013As with its predecessors, Julia With Blue Jeans On forges new ground for the prolific artist, both musically and aesthetically.
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Oct 29, 2013Moonface is essentially making Krug more admirable and less enjoyable. Depending on what you look for, that is the measure of its success.
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Oct 31, 2013There are moments on Julia where he succeeds in creating the important and honest music he wants to make. Of course, when you’re using a shotgun, you’re bound to hit something.
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