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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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May 26, 2015Though The Clearing works fine as background music, it offers up many more intricacies and delights if you give it your full concentration.
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May 26, 2015Sometimes 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.
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The WireJun 5, 2015The 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]
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May 26, 2015The 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.
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UncutJun 24, 2015Rachel grimes continues to make challenging, tense music. [Aug 2015, p.75]
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Jul 10, 2015The 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.
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Jun 4, 2015Now, she is after a larger quarry: the contemporary chamber ensemble. But she does not quite capture it on The Clearing.
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