Press Highlights for Book of Leaves:
CMJ:
On Fillmore And Rachel Grimes (Review)
July 15, 2010
Little
Umbrellas Review
February 28, 2010
Pitchfork
Album Review
by Joe Tangari, January 25, 2010
Owl
City Picks His Favorite New Artist Of 2010!
by James Montgomery, January 21, 2010
4 STARS in MOJO
The Music Magazine Review
December 4, 2009
Review in
the WIRE Magazine
by Joseph Stannard, December 2009
BBC
Pioneering Neo-Classicist
reveals her solo debut
by Spencer Grady, October 13, 2009
“We owe Rachel Grimes big.”
“..with Music for Egon Schiele …found the conviction and confidence
to match her voice..”
“Her most wondrous gift was always her ability to paint the most evocative
pictures in purest ivory and her lightness of touch allows majestic statements
such as the Corner Room and Long Before Us to ring out, echoing with sensuousness
and sentiment before drawing the listener back in.”
New
York Times – Live Review
by Allan Kozinn, October 14, 2009
“..offered glimpses of an alternate universe in which expansive, unified
projects are everything.”
“..overall serenity..”
“..her evident fascination with French music: Ravel and Debussy
hover nearby (in the watery imagery and modal harmonies of “Bloodroot”
for example)
Time
Out Chicago – Album review
by Mia Clarke, September 24, 2009
“The gorgeous tones and deep swells of her grand piano radiate. The result
is so intimate you feel as if you are alone with her in a room – or in
a field when she injects the somber drama of her compositions with field recordings
of birds and insects.”
Dusted
– Album review
by Tobias Carroll, October 22, 2009
“..a tendency towards an ambient style of playing, one that allows for
space to hover between notes and for small resonances to emerge.”
Another fine review from Dusted
Venus – Album review
by Anna Guiliani, Fall 2009
“Grimes structures Book of Leaves beautifully – while each song
can stand on its own, the work is thematically similar enough to function as
a full-length meditation on the outside world.”
Reviews and interviews in Detriot Free Press, Time Out Chicago, BBC, Venus, Blurt, NYTimes, Dusted, A room to breathe in, Autres Directions, City Arts New York, Seattle Weekly, Courier Journal, Indie Eye, Kronic, Progressia, SAN60, Sentireascoltare, SubjectVisten, Supersweet, Textura