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74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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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. 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]
  3. 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.
  4. May 26, 2015
    80
    Rachel Grimes has given us a collection of new pieces that quietly dazzle with their evocative power, intelligence, and strength, and The Clearing is something lovely and truly extraordinary that ranks with the best, most enveloping music of recent memory.
  5. 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.
  6. Uncut
    Jun 24, 2015
    70
    Rachel grimes continues to make challenging, tense music. [Aug 2015, p.75]
  7. 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.
  8. 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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