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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Feb 3, 2016
    80
    Grasque is never redundant. It is pop without cliches, and avant-garde without boredom. [Jan/Feb 2016, p.55]
  2. Mojo
    Feb 3, 2016
    80
    2012;s Rhine Gold album leant more on burbling electronica, while Grasque pushes further still, into slow R&B jams, chillwave, even George Michael when Makrigiannis uses his higher register. [Mar 2016, p.95]
  3. Feb 23, 2016
    70
    The songs amble through multiple genre divides, most pushing well past the three-minute pop mark. Good thing--it’s the contrasts where the pleasure lies.
  4. Feb 8, 2016
    70
    Grasque sometimes manages to make average pizza from excellent ingredients. When COYB are tenacious enough to boil a track down to a workable size, the result is a triumph. Often it can resemble unleavened music, stripped of the necessary rise and fall.
  5. Mar 11, 2016
    60
    A new chapter for the band perhaps, which may lead to some great results in the future. But whittle away the highlights and you realise Grasque perhaps works better as a great EP.
  6. Feb 25, 2016
    60
    Intangible and atmospheric, but not a lot to latch on to.
  7. Feb 19, 2016
    60
    Grasque proves to be the group's most elusive outing to date, favoring icy, often formless melodies that come and go as they please, and existential lyrics that periodically dissolve into ghostly, wordless repetition.
  8. Uncut
    Feb 3, 2016
    60
    The results are suitably polishes, but their pleasures are ephemeral. [Mar 2016, p.71]
  9. Jun 14, 2016
    40
    The production has gotten bigger, slicker and more surgically clean, but the tunes haven’t.
  10. Feb 26, 2016
    40
    A record that struggles to catch fire.
  11. Feb 16, 2016
    40
    In fleeting moments Grasque offers glimpses into Makrigiannis’s inventive musical mind, but too often it gets stuck wandering up in the clouds.
  12. Q Magazine
    Feb 3, 2016
    40
    A collection of electronics-based tunes, drifting, gently paced but surprisingly torpid. [Mar 2016, p.108]

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