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Aug 12, 2015All Around Us is a worldly, global and harmonious 43 minutes. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.65]
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Aug 27, 2015What saves the record from being a lacklustre, sotto-voiced tribute act is that, strikingly, Briana herself is a cookie-cutter Northwest coast hippie.
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Aug 20, 2015All Around Us can’t seem to feel anything other than transitional. Having evolved some semblance of a skeleton from her previous work, given its flashes of excellence, one can’t help but hope it ultimately morphs into a fully moving, breathing being next time out.
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MagnetAug 12, 2015All Around Us is moody, pretty and spooky-cool. [No. 123, p.59]
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Aug 26, 2015The songs grow overly long at the end (the title track is a bit of a bore), though the album is consistently beautiful, if not always ear-catching.
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Aug 20, 2015All Around Us stands as a puckish, blustery, peculiar creation recommended for a good pair of headphones.
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Aug 17, 2015Pretty, but ultimately uneven record.
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UncutAug 12, 2015The problem comes when you delve beneath the sonic experimentation and listen to Marela's whimpering lyrics--a litany of drippy, desperate neediness. [Sep 2015, p.77]
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Aug 13, 2015Marela’s lyrics sometimes lack craft and thoughtfulness, like words plucked from a diary and dropped into a song without regard to word choice or rhythm. It’s a fine line between childlike and childish, and too many songs tend toward the latter.
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Aug 12, 2015All Around Us runs into the danger of stating things too plainly, of letting easy answers edge out space for complexity and depth. It feels like Marela wanted to make a weird album, but the one she’s made is mostly just pretty.