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This Is For The White In Your Eye - Choir of Young Believers
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77 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Urb
    90
    Winner of the "Best New Act" award at the Danish Grammys, Choir of Young Believers' debut is like summer itself--over too soon, but a tremendous joy.
  2. Prefix Magazine
    90
    This Is for the White in Your Eyes is a come-out-of-the-gate winner.
  3. The A.V. Club
    83
    Makrigiannis' style makes a strong first impression, as his songs flow naturally from muted sorrow to booming emotion and back. He evokes the calm, the storm, and the aftermath.
  4. Mojo
    80
    Led by spectral-voiced dreamer Jannis Makrigiannis, they have made a desolately pretty debut, its tangible, space and reverb-worn expansiveness conjuring vast Nordic skies. [Dec 2009, p. 92]
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  5. Uncut
    80
    The music is accordingly spectral, with sparse piano teasing its way into break-out crescendos of strings, French horns and a children's choir. [Dec 2009, p. 87]
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  6. Under The Radar
    70
    Watch out he'll make yoyr believe. [Summer 2009, p.60]
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  7. Spin
    70
    When he injects melodic sunshine, as on the loping 'Action/Reaction,' For the White in Your Eyes nestles nicely between the Beach Boys and Fleet Foxes. But Makrigiannis mostly stays in stark, downcast mode.
  8. The Guardian
    60
    Overall, though, it's too smooth and metropolitan to inspire the same ­reaction that Bon Iver's For Emma, ­Forever Ago did last summer.
  9. Dusted Magazine
    50
    It is something of a missing link, and therefore a reminder of the often uncomfortably close proximity, between indie baroque's earnestness and the pyrotechnic baroque of a lead singer who keeps a "passion coach" in his entourage.
  10. Tiny Mix Tapes
    40
    Sadly, This is for the White in Your Eyes sees a band with great potential whose ambitions too frequently get the best of them.
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