Reaching for Indigo
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CRITIC REVIEWS
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Circuit des Yeux's complex, masterful Reaching for Indigo is a prog opera of slow, complex instrumentation and cinematic pop.
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Reaching For Indigo, indeed, is awe personified.
90
Taken as a whole, the album feels like a warm, melancholy memory I have of sitting around a stereo one autumn in Indiana. A random series of characters filtered through the room, each offering up a selection to the queue: warped tapes, documents of faded trips, noise records, delicate epiphanies carved into time. In other words, the influences here are many, but they all embrace each other.
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It’s an album bursting with ambition, alternating between moments of intimate beauty and stretches of dense, disorienting fog.
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Reaching for Indigo stands out as her most fully-realized and ambitious effort that paradoxically is also characteristically fluid and ambiguous.
80
With Reaching for Indigo, Fohr has done a remarkable job at translating a hard-to-define, life-changing event into powerful music.
80
With many long-form pieces that build slowly, the lack of resolution or a climax is often upsetting but their commitment to the sound is what sets this album apart. Taking risks performance and writing-wise that many bands would be too afraid to even venture, they hit some amazing moments on this record that balance out the dragging moments well.
80
While it gives a feeling of unease, Indigo is actually about seeking to understand through self-identification. And ultimately, having to move forward with what’s outside of her immediate scope.
80
Reaching for Indigo is a heady brew of Fohr’s songwriting, voice, and twelve-string guitar playing co-mixing with an ace cast of collaborators. It’s a fully-realized synthesis of her distinctiveness and her desire for community—and it’s a revelation.
76
With her perplexing, low voice -- matched with slick, abundant experimentation -- Reaching for Indigo transcends the traditional appeal of a singer-songwriter.
70
The melodrama may be uncomfortable, but Fohr wears the gloom well; her uniqueness remains compelling, even while swimming through the darkness, searching for the light
Great album, it's really sad how underrated it is.
Favs: Brainshift, Black Fly, Philo, Paper Bag and A Story of This World Part II.
Favs: Brainshift, Black Fly, Philo, Paper Bag and A Story of This World Part II.
Some parts of this album dig straight into my heart. 'Black Fly' kind of blows my mind every time I hear it, there is a haunted beauty in depth of her voice. While at times her low voice works to charge her music with a spiritual intensity, there are times where she swallows her vowels too much, and it sounds heavy and a little ridiculous. I do think overall it is a pretty compelling listen!
This is my first introduction to Circuit des Yeux music and wow her latest album was awe-inspiring. Her newest record "Reaching for indigo" takes a more experimentation approach that oddly mixes with her deep low and unsettling voice. The way she uses her vocal chops is very unique but at the same time shows some boldness to it. The production of this record is an amalgamation of folk music all the way down to some synth passages and dabbles around with more prog sound. It is ... read more
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Track List
- Brainshift
- Black Fly
- Philo
- Paper Bag
- A Story of This World Part II
- Call Sign E8
- Geyser
- Falling Blonde
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Added on: August 1, 2017
