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Length
  
46:30

Artist
  
Choir of Young Believers

Label
  
Tigerspring Records

This Is for the White in Your Eyes (2008)
  
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Release date
  
1 September 2008

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Released
  
September 1, 2008 (DK) August 18, 2009 (US/EU) December 16, 2009 (JP)

Producer
  
Anders Rhedin Fridolin Tai Nordsø Schjoldan Jannis Noya Makrigiannis

Choir vs. Evil (EP) (2007)
  
This Is for the White in Your Eyes (2008)

Genres
  
Orchestral pop, Avant-garde music, Slowcore, Art Pop, Chamber pop

Nominations
  
Danish Music Award for Danish Album of the Year

Choir of young believers next summer live


This Is for the White in Your Eyes is the debut studio album by Copenhagen-based Danish chamber pop band Choir of Young Believers, released in Denmark on September 1, 2008 on Tigerspring, in the United States and Europe on August 18, 2009 on Ghostly International, and in Japan on December 16, 2009 on art union.

Contents

Choir of young believers hollow talk


Critical reception

This Is for the White in Your Eyes received largely 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 77, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave the album a positive review, stating, "This Is for the White in Your Eyes is majestic and haunting in the best sense, as Makrigiannis uses strings, chopped-up percussion tracks, and his own multi-tracked voice to create the sense of a gradually unfolding moment. Makrigiannis lets notes hang, which, given the fragility of his voice, means he risks pushing a note so far that it cracks. And yet if there’s one quality that unifies Choir of Young Believers’ songs, it’s precision. Makrigiannis’ style makes a strong first impression, as his songs flow naturally from muted sorrow to booming emotion and back. He evokes the calm, the storm, and the aftermath."

Track listing

All tracks written by Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, except where noted.

  • "Claustrophobia" contains lyrics from "I Hold the Old" by Kim LAS.

    • Personnel

    Main personnel
  • Jannis Noya Makrigiannis – arrangement, bass, guitar, keyboard, lyrics, percussion, piano, vocals, writing
  • Fridolin Tai Nordsø Schjoldan – arrangement, backing vocals, bass, drums, flute, keyboard, percussion, trumpet
  • Anders Rhedin – arrangement, backing vocals, drums, guitar, keyboard, percussion, lyrics (1)
  • Bo Rande – backing vocals, horns, keyboard
  • Cæcilie Trier – backing vocals, cello
  • Mette Sand Hersoug – backing vocals, flute, violin
  • Jakob Millung – bass
  • Casper Henning – drums, percussion
  • Frederik Nordsø – percussion
  • Lasse Herbst – percussion
  • Nicolai Kleinerman Koch – piano
    • Additional personnel
  • Jannis Noya Makrigiannis – engineering, mastering, production
  • Fridolin Tai Nordsø Schjoldan – engineering, mastering, production
  • Anders Rhedin – engineering, mastering, percussion, production
  • Frederik Tao – mixing, mastering
  • Nis Bysted – artwork
  • Nis Sigurdsson – artwork

    • Songs

    1Hollow Talk5:21
    2Next Summer3:46
    3These Rituals of Mine4:34

    References

    This Is for the White in Your Eyes Wikipedia
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