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Mar 31, 2014Arc Iris is traditional music thrillingly positioned at the nexus of the old and new.
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Apr 1, 2014Arc Iris puts Adams through the paces, as a composer of mercurial melodies, a nimble singer, and a force to be reckoned with.
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Mar 31, 2014This band's disciplined, sensitive unity expresses Adams' fresh, expansive musical vision with elegance and grit, humor and pathos, tenderness and sensuality.
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Mar 31, 2014Arc Iris is a breezy, clever and flirtatious debut solo album which immediately puts Jocie Adams's former output firmly behind her, and should find her a devoted and expectant audience.
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Apr 9, 2014Arc Iris remains, first and foremost, believable, from Adams’ pained whispers to swaggering shouts, every inch of joy and pain palpable and exquisite.
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Apr 16, 2014While some moments may be a little theatrical, the astounding musicianship and production pulls it back, from the thick woodiness of clarinet and raucous cupped trumpet to the unbelievable percussion and strings.
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Mar 31, 2014The 11 tracks are in fact roughly split between the folk/country side and the jazz/cabaret side, and this makes for an album that can at times dazzle with its omnivorous verve, but which also has a tendency to become disjointed.
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May 1, 2014The first [half] sees Adams’ spectral vocals go up against a furious string section, while the second is reminiscent of Joanna Newsom’s work with Van Dyke Parks. It’s all interesting stuff--albeit with a predilection for the twee--but may be a little much for some listeners to take in one go.
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Apr 24, 2014Though the band seems to have packed all of its musical interests and abilities into the album’s 11 songs, this is a most likely only a sampling of their capabilities and of the colorful ideas yet to spring from the mind of Jocie Adams.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Apr 4, 2014
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Apr 8, 2014This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Apr 2, 2014