Grasque

Grasque
Studio album by Choir of Young Believers
Released	February 19, 2016
Genre	Chamber pop ambient pop alternative R&B avant pop orchestral pop art pop
Length	58:41
Language	English Danish Greek
Label	Ghostly International Tigerspring
Producer	Aske Zidore
Choir of Young Believers chronology
Rhine Gold (2012) Grasque (2016)
Singles from Grasque
"Face Melting" Released: May 5, 2015 "Jeg Ser Dig" Released: September 23, 2015 "Serious Lover" Released: November 29, 2015 "Perfect Estocada" Released: January 15, 2016
Alternative cover
Tigerspring artwork

Grasque is the third studio album by Copenhagen-based Danish chamber pop band Choir of Young Believers, released on February 19, 2016, on Ghostly International in the United States and on Tigerspring in Europe.

The album was preceded by the singles "Face Melting", "Jeg Ser Dig", and "Serious Lover".

The album's title, Grasque, is a phonetic spelling of the Danish word "Græske", pluralis of "Greek".

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	59/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Clash	6/10
The Guardian
Mojo
musicOMH
Paste	7.0/10
PopMatters
Q
Uncut
Under the Radar

Grasque received mixed to positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".

Cody Ray Shafer of Under the Radar praised the album, stating, "Makrigiannis' contribution to pop music is certainly underappreciated, but creatively rivaled by artists like Brian Eno and Scott Walker. Big, complicated ideas are understandably hard to execute, but Grasque is a serious exploration of the deepest reaches of pop music. But it is the gracefulness of those explorations that rival even Rhine Gold, a feat that shouldn't even be possible, but Grasque pulls it off without missing a single note."

Brice Ezell of PopMatters was more critical of the album, stating, "Grasque‘s biggest missteps come when it fails to strike the balances that Makrigiannis has skillfully executed in the past: the wispy with the visceral, the esoteric and the catchy. 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."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jannis Noya Makrigiannis

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Olimpiyskiy" (English: Olympic)	1:38
2.	"Serious Lover"	5:25
3.	"Vaserne"	1:55
4.	"Face Melting"	7:05
5.	"Græske" (English: Greek)	8:16
6.	"Jeg Ser Dig" (English: I See You)	6:09
7.	"Cloud Nine"	5:33
8.	"The Whirlpool Enigma"	1:20
9.	"Perfect Estocada"	5:36
10.	"Salvatore"	0:52
11.	"Gamma Moth"	5:58
12.	"Does It Look as If I Care"	8:54
Total length:		58:41

Personnel

Main personnel

• Jannis Noya Makrigiannis –
• Jakob Falgren –
• Casper Henning Hansen –
• Nicolai Kleinerman Koch –
• Sonja Labianca –
• Rosa Noya Makrigiannis –
• Cæcilie Trier –
• Rasmus Valldorf –

Additional personnel

• Aske Zidore – engineering, mixing, production
• Glenn Nielsen – engineering
• Flemming Rasmussen – engineering
• Tommy Kamp Vestergaard – engineering