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Oct 23, 2017A truly singular statement that vividly captures a century of folk, classic rock, and mid-century electronica.
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MagnetNov 21, 2017This is they type of sublime, maximalist treasure that should kick positive inspiration downstairs into the emperor-in-his-birthday-suit, for-the-sake-of-it, substance-free charlatan safe room that the experimental/abstract realm of contemporary underground music can sometime seem like. [No. 148, p.55]
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Oct 23, 2017Each song of eight on the album develops its own world of feeling, each in a different mode and with a unique musical setting.
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Oct 20, 2017Throughout these eight tracks, she intuitively navigates within the dark and mysterious space of her psyche: an undomesticated, sometimes precarious landscape bustling with flora and fauna. With that rare quality of sounding both grand and plaintive, Fohr’s voice is accompanied by a prowling organ on ‘Brainshift’, as if scrutinising the terrain up on a hillside.
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Oct 20, 2017It’s an album bursting with ambition, alternating between moments of intimate beauty and stretches of dense, disorienting fog.
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The WireDec 11, 2017Fohr’s music achieves ever greater levels of emotional richness while keeping a careful distance from the confessional. [Nov 2017, p.54]
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Dec 7, 2017With hints of minimalism, psych rock, and even Gregorian chant to be found, Reaching For Indigo is rich, dark and incisive; a work of immense beauty.
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Nov 27, 2017Fohr details her cathartic experience with a smothering array of droning textures and clashing orchestral elements, where she succeeds at making sense out of her cosmic encounter.
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Nov 21, 2017The tropes of romantic art are self-consciously manipulated, but the artifice is made plain, and the finished work feels more real as a result.
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Oct 27, 2017Her performance reinforces the thrust towards freedom that shows up in the other songs. She isn’t just playing with the women and men in the band; she’s rising above them, flying high and alone in the blue.
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UncutOct 20, 2017Fohr's extraordinarily expressive baritone--echoing Nina Simone, Nico and Scot Walker--is the centre of her songs which range far and wide compositionally. [Nov 2017, p.24]
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Oct 20, 2017With Reaching for Indigo, Fohr has done a remarkable job at translating a hard-to-define, life-changing event into powerful music.
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Oct 27, 2017Reaching for Indigo transcends the traditional appeal of a singer-songwriter. Whenever Haley Fohr sings, it’s as if the instrumentation around her is momentarily frozen in time; quite the compliment for an album that surrounds her with so many uncommon vibrations.
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Nov 24, 2017