Released February 19, 2016 Language English
Danish
Greek Release date 19 February 2016 Label Ghostly International | Length 58:41 Artist Choir of Young Believers Producer Oh No Ono | |
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Genres Orchestral pop, Alternative R&B, Avant-garde music, Art Pop, Chamber pop Similar This Is for the White in Your E, Psychic 9‑5 Club, It's Immaterial, Thousand Thursday, Once The Lights Are On | ||
Grasque is the third studio album by Copenhagen-based Danish chamber pop band Choir of Young Believers, released on February 19, 2016 on Ghostly International in the United States and on Tigerspring in Europe.
Contents
The album was preceded by the singles "Face Melting", "Jeg Ser Dig", and "Serious Lover".
The album's title, Grasque, is a phonetic spelling of the Danish word "Græske", meaning "Greek".
Critical reception
Grasque received mixed to positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".
Cody Ray Shafer of Under the Radar praised the album, stating, "Makrigiannis' contribution to pop music is certainly underappreciated, but creatively rivaled by artists like Brian Eno and Scott Walker. Big, complicated ideas are understandably hard to execute, but Grasque is a serious exploration of the deepest reaches of pop music. But it is the gracefulness of those explorations that rival even Rhine Gold, a feat that shouldn't even be possible, but Grasque pulls it off without missing a single note."
Brice Ezell of PopMatters was more critical of the album, stating, "Grasque‘s biggest missteps come when it fails to strike the balances that Makrigiannis has skillfully executed in the past: the wispy with the visceral, the esoteric and the catchy. In fleeting moments Grasque offers glimpses into Makrigiannis’s inventive musical mind, but too often it gets stuck wandering up in the clouds. The view is pretty up there, but the risk of running out of oxygen increases the longer you stay."
Track listing
All tracks written by Jannis Noya Makrigiannis.
Personnel
Songs
1Olimpiyskiy1:39
2Serious Lover5:26
3Vaserne1:55