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  • Summary: The second full-length solo release for the pianist/composer features contributions from Kyle Crabtree, Scott Moore and Scott Morgan of LOSCIL.
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  • Record Label: Temporary Residence
  • Genre(s): Classical, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Rock, Chamber Pop, Chamber Music
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  1. May 26, 2015
    86
    Though The Clearing works fine as background music, it offers up many more intricacies and delights if you give it your full concentration.
  2. 80
    Sometimes weighty and serious, sometimes dissolute and light, Grimes’ interaction with the piano on The Clearing is the sound of a musician who knows how to extract every emotion and feeling from what they are playing.
  3. The Wire
    Jun 5, 2015
    80
    The Clearing isn't a work of artfully suspended melancholy which leaves the listener wanting and wondering00it gestures ahead toward comfort and resolution. [Jun 2015, p.48]
  4. May 26, 2015
    75
    The whole record conjures images of naturalism and space, evoking wings, flight, and distance. There’s a melancholy beauty carrying along these delicate compositions. Call it Pictures Of An Outdoor Life.
  5. Uncut
    Jun 24, 2015
    70
    Rachel grimes continues to make challenging, tense music. [Aug 2015, p.75]
  6. Jul 10, 2015
    60
    The Clearing may not be a slam-dunk for the neoclassical movement, but it serves out positive little tidbits of what the subgenre has to offer.
  7. Jun 4, 2015
    57
    Now, she is after a larger quarry: the contemporary chamber ensemble. But she does not quite capture it on The Clearing.

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