Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Sep 13, 2012Grace and Lies is a terrific disc and the signal of a strong new talent, but far too often the entire effort feels like a solo album and a vessel to showcase Krans' alto voice.
-
MagnetAug 23, 2012Heavy, haunting and wholly captivating. [No.90 p.56]
-
Aug 22, 2012Listening to Grace & Lies can be taxing; it feels at moments like succumbing slowly to emotional frostbite. But Krans and Ollsin stir in a few furtive warm pockets to keep their record from freezing over.
-
Sep 25, 2012Grace & Lies isn't the kind of record you could, or probably should, play every day. Not simply because it's intense or occasionally over morose but mainly because it's pretty, bloody, special. It's a little box of whispers and secrets that'll haunt your heart and dreams aplenty.
-
Sep 20, 2012Grace & Lies works best when it lays it on thick - opting for textures over latticework -and is least successful when it strips back and relies on its acoustic-folk undercarriage. Thankfully, the former predominates.
-
Aug 22, 2012Powerful growth propels the music on Family Band's debut album, yet they always seem to find themselves returning to a cloudy depth, drenched in deep thought and dark notions.
-
Aug 22, 2012Grace and Lies is at its best when opposing ideas collide into each other.
-
Under The RadarAug 22, 2012It rarely displays much spirit, or even a pulse. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.122]