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Mar 16, 2012It is a truly beautiful album.
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Feb 10, 2012Wonderfully courageous, Gibson's reflections make her latest record her most accomplished work yet.
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MojoJan 31, 2012This curiously beautiful little album has retained the surreal, daydreamy quality and rustic chill of its predecessor, while adding a lot more warmth. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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Jan 20, 2012There are moments of beauty here that others will struggle to touch this year.
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UncutJan 18, 2012The best tracks ooze a kind of drowsy melancholy. [Feb 2012, p.86]
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Jan 17, 2012As you listen, you can easily picture a campfire in a forest, stars in the sky and Laura Gibson, guitar cradled in her arms, mumbling her way through an upbeat breezy folk song that implies some inner sadness while at the same time being entirely optimistic and happy.
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Q MagazineJan 10, 2012A varied and hugely absorbing record. [Feb. 2012 p. 107]
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Jan 10, 2012Squeaking with the glamour of a rusty gramophone, 'The Rushing Dark' flashes with delicate splendour and, alongside 'Time Is Not', evokes moonlit, cobbled Parisian streets and carafes of elderflower wine.
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Jan 10, 2012This gem of a long-player – both sleepy and steely, mystical yet rooted in very real and universal themes – deserves all the plaudits that will hopefully meet its release.
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Jan 31, 2012One wouldn't expect Gibson's latest to bowl over any audiophile chasing the wow!-factor, but for the patient, contemplative listener, La Grande-- much like the campfire depicted on its cover-- is a record worth warming to.
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Jan 25, 2012This is a wonderful, subtle album, whose songs seem simple at first, but open up and grow more interesting on repeated listens.
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Jan 24, 2012It's a voice both genuine and pure, and when she keeps the stylized pitter-patter to a minimum, the effect is downright touching-much like La Grande itself.
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Jan 23, 2012While a sense of nostalgia runs through the record--from archaic instrumental sounds and gramophone crackle to Gibson's own pure vocal distilled through multi-tracking--the sheer craft she brings to blending the old with the new makes listening an altogether rewarding experience.
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Jan 19, 2012Although La Grande is no huge departure from what Gibson has been practicing for years, it's a wholesome and welcome addition to a back-catalogue which has very few flaws, even if the moments which stand up and make you take notice are not numerous.
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Jan 13, 2012Sounding freer and better than she ever has before.