| Gem Club / In Roses |
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| Album: | In Roses | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Gem Club | Added: | Mar 2014 | |
| Label: | Hardly Art | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-04-04 | Pull Date: | 2014-06-06 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 8 | May 25 | May 18 | May 11 | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 | Apr 13 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 15, 2015: | The Sunset Life (Best of 2014, Part 3) Soft Season | 4. | May 24, 2014: | Live Your Life Idea For Strings | |
| 2. | Nov 13, 2014: | The Sunset Life Idea For Strings | 5. | May 15, 2014: | Fried Egg Idea For Strings | |
| 3. | Jun 04, 2014: | Meow After Midnight Soft Season | 6. | May 11, 2014: | Everything. Speech Of Foxes |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2014-03-30 | ||
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Recorded at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in SF, the second album from this Massachusetts trio is an icy treasure. The whole affair feels like a slowcore neoclassical lullaby; pianos, silky strings, and plaintive vocals abound in an endless sonic mist. All songs are slow. The whole album is so pretty it’s painful, but it really picks up about a third of the way in. Standouts: 5, 6, 8, 9, 11. No FCCs. 1. (2:11)—Instrumental. Soft, chilly sci-fi keyboards. 2. (6:28)—Major-key piano. Builds in the second half, vocals drop out near the end. 3. (2:24)—Of a piece with the previous track, but a bit more desperate and chiming. 4. (4:14)—Tenser, slightly poppier, more immediately poised to reach epic heights. 5. *(5:13)—Starts big and Enya-like in all the best ways. The atmosphere is more anxious and yearning here, toward a beatless James Blake. Wow. Wow. 6. *(5:43)—Nocturnal, deep, shifting, melancholy. Droning middle section, slowcore finale. 7. (3:18)—Instrumental. Disjointed vocals, then a sudden shift to epic tragedy film music. 8. *(3:54)—Dire, dark. Minimal beginning, pulsing final third. 9. *(5:22)—Continues down a darkening tonal path. Brushed drums, beautiful harmonies. Vaguely anthemic. 10. (4:45)—Lighter feel. Slow broken chords on the piano. Builds in intensity at the very end—all of a sudden I imagined this being performed in a bright, white church. 11. *(7:26)—Synth arpeggios. Takes a repetitive structure, and with every iteration the music expands outward and upward. As slowly and gracefully as it builds, it lands and reaches silence. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | [Nowhere] | 6. | Soft Season | |||
| 2. | First Weeks | 7. | Qy2 | |||
| 3. | Michael | 8. | Speech Of Foxes | |||
| 4. | Hypericum | 9. | Braid | |||
| 5. | Idea For Strings | 10. | Marathon (In Roses) | |||
| 11. | Polly | |||||