Alternative Press (6/96, p.91) - 4 - Well Done - "...Ms. Dall and cohorts have totally stripped goth of all bombast, incorporated some cool drones and dark pop touches, and condensed the genre's chilling moroseness to a minimalistic intensity..."
NME (3/2/96, p.45) - 7 (out of 10) - "...in the world of lo-fi, all her trance-rock fantasies have come true. She has held onto [her] imagination...and come up with her own fairy tales of breathy sweetness....the album is a grand, ultra-feminine, magical mystery tour of the mind..."
Melody Maker (3/9/96, p.35) - Recommended - "...a gem of a record, it's an opal: smooth milky-blue on the outside, but glittering with crystalline spikes inside..."
Rovi
On her remarkable debut album, the singer-songwriter Cynthia Dall teams with Smog mastermind Bill Callahan and indie-rock all-rounder Jim O'Rourke in an idiosyncratic set whose spare instrumentation includes piano, cello, and guitar. Dall's songs are deeply personal yet still accessible; her duet with Callahan on "Holland" has the easygoing feel of a conversation, and the scratchy instrumentation of "Grey and Castles" expertly conjures an air of foreboding and tension.|
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