Halfaxa
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Halfaxa
Halfaxa is the second studio album by Canadian recording artist Grimes. It was released in Canada on October 5, 2010, by Arbutus Records, and in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe in May 2011 by Lo Recordings. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Claire Boucher's early experimentations were a far cry from the music she makes today. Halfaxa, 15 ethereal tracks in which her vocals approached pure glossolalia, is Grimes at her most mystical.
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BBC Music
Persevere and Halfaxa is quite the beguiling beauty.
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Drowned in Sound
This is not the kind of gut-wrenching, heart-racing, shiver-inducing stuff that knocks you for six and leaves you gagging for more. But as nostalgic, hand-crafted pastiches of contemporary pop music go, it's pretty good.
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Sputnik Music
Pleasing but not totally there.
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Dummy Mag
Your job with music is to listen and accept and enjoy. To the extent that you do judge, you do so only by their standards, not yours. Grow up. Make the effort. Lean closer. Explore. Get in.
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CKUW Radio
Grimes is about sound and seamless blending of influence, and Halfaxa offers some new twist on every listen.
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Index Voice
Above all, Boucher does a fantastic job of blending together all the instruments she has available—including the one that’s with her no matter where she goes—to piece together a gem of an album.
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indie30
Claire Boucher has in her artistic keeping something both tangible and intangible, a growing skill as a creator of music and an awareness of how important and powerful inexplicability and mystery in music can be.
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Sounds XP
There’s a darkness and coldness to all of this that, paradoxically feels very inviting and marks an important new talent supernova-ing into being.
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Obscure Sound
Boucher’s voice is extraordinarily unique here as usual, and her exploitation of the various pitches she is able to emit is awe-inspiring . . . Most songs on Halifaxa are just as inspiring, and Boucher is the only artist I am aware of in 2010 who has released two full-lengths worthy of year-end mentions.
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The Digital Fix
Behind the wall of reverberating effects and pulsating beats that drown the album, there lies the pleasant, if slightly uninspiring, waters of a post-comedown chill-out.
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Cyclic Defrost
Grimes has created an interesting debut – one that sounds of-the-moment and that takes inspiration from many disparate sources to create something pretty fresh and that more often than not hints at great things to come.
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