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10.0
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10.0 |
DIY
Complex, unconventional and ultimately, essential
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9.1
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Beats Per Minute
It is complex yet universal – comforting yet unsettling. It lives in an incorporeal realm of its own, and somehow, Sumney has gained complete and utter command over it
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9.0
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The Music
Confronts with its complexity and demands that you pay it close attention
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9.0
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Gigwise
Greyness is a metaphor for being in between extremes...it’s the void
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9.0
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Paste Magazine
Folk, soul, jazz, ambient and classical music come together with a world-class voice
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9.0
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Albumism
In a world filled with “cancel culture” and the increasing polarization of opinions, Sumney dwells instead in the grey areas, where definitive roles and opinions are rendered redundant—the only interesting place to be
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8.6
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Pitchfork
The sprawling second album from the crystal-voiced singer-songwriter is a riot of moods. Moses Sumney widens the scope of his work and takes full account of his self, warts and all
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
græ suggests that the artist might be rising out of the shadows he explores so tenderly
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Moses Sumney remains as challenging and captivating as ever on new double-effort
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8.5
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Under The Radar
Moses Sumney’s sophomore album is an expansive and sweeping meditation on liminality and the process of defining oneself
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8.3
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A.V. Club
If Sumney’s fiery, spiritual 2018 EP Black in Deep Red, 2014 upended fans’ expectations, then Grae is a revelatory shock. Sumney’s music resonates most strongly when—like its lyrics—it destroys pre-established boundaries
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8.0
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The Independent
Under his masterful production, it sounds as though there are 20 musicians in the room with him
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8.0
118584
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The Arts Desk
Sumney is most interested in removing masculinity’s hard shell, and touching the tenderness beneath
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8.0
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The Observer
Sumney’s “art rock and black classical” double album concludes with quieter highs
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8.0
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Clash
An emotionally ambitious 20-track built on pain, vulnerability and self-identity
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8.0
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Uncut
Comes awfully close to the masterwork he so clearly gunning to make. Print edition only
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8.0
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NME
Nothing is straightforward on this intimate, soul-searching record, which veers from jazz to art-pop, the form matching the message that life contains multitudes
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8.0
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No Ripcord
Despite the sonic warmth of Græ, this is an incredibly lonely and bittersweet project in its prose
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7.0
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7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The real showstopper is the understated ‘Colouour’, with Sumney’s vocal range hitting timbres most of us can only dream of—it’s the moment where græ truly feels technicolour.
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