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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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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, 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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May 26, 2015Rachel 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.
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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]