This Is For The White In Your Eyes

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 46:47

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Barry Walters

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08.18.09
Choir Of Young Believers, This Is For The White In Your Eyes
2009 | Label: Ghostly International / IODA

Choir of Young Believers main man Jannis Noya Makrigiannis is not the kind of guy you'd expect to helm the kind of orchestral indie-rock group that could make multiple generations weep. This 26-year-old singer-songwriter's previous musical output was limited to playing guitar and singing background vocals for Lake Placid, an eight-piece ensemble in the same Danish dance-pop mold as Junior Senior and Alphabeat. But the Choir that began as Makrigiannis's solo vehicle has blossomed into a band responsible for what will be remembered as one of 2009's moodiest and most audacious debut albums, This Is For the White in Your Eyes.

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Promising highlights, overall a bit meh

WeAreGlass

The highlights of this album, notably "Action/Reaction," sound really fantastic, but the album feels muddied by a lot of middling tracks. Probably removing them from the context of the album would show them to be great, but the songs on the LP seem to blur together in a wash of Wintry production and slow tempos.

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All Hail Brian Wilson

DJWORD

someone called it Radiohead meets Fleet Foxes and I can get what they are saying, but it is less precious than Fleet Foxes, thankfully. It feels like a secular choir of Pet Sounds era beach Boys worshipers. All Hail Brian Wilson.

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one to play/replay

B_Alice

Somewhere between Nick Drake with a groove and the Dirty Projectors without the yelling comes this meaty little album for life's reflective moments. Stand out tracks: Action/Reaction, She Walks, Why Must It Always Be This Way

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