Big, complicated ideas are understandably hard to execute, but Grasque is a serious exploration of the deepest reaches of pop music.
Grasque benefits from its epic-long compositions and continues COYB’s ability to surprise.
The connective tissue between Grasque and previous Choir of Young Believers albums holds strong, proving at its core this is still the singular vision of the same man.
Makrigiannis admits that after finishing the Rhine Gold tour that he "felt confused, adrift and didn’t feel like playing music," and Grasque reflects that, but it also feels suitably cathartic, though probably more so for Makrigiannis than the listener.
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.
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