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Larkin Grimm | Parplar | Review
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ravensingsthebluesIt seems like an almost natural occurrence for Larkin Grimm to end up associated with Michael Gira's Young God Records. She's certainly a kindred spirit to the acts that have flowed through its doors over the years. Parplar is by many accounts her most conventional record but as with many artists borne out of folk experimentation, eventually the essences of melody and form have to peek their head from the clatter and clang sometime. Gira acts as co-producer here and his hand may have had something to do with the calming of Grimm's waters but in all honesty he's never really been one to instill convention in an artist, so maybe not. While the noises and outbursts that accompany her songs have become more cohesive her singularly entrancing voice hasn't changed a bit. Larkin's high warble soars above a beautiful mix of instrumentation that churns melodically as if forged from the sounds of native winds. For an artist with such a tumultuous past she resonates an unmistakable connection to nature and her surroundings that might only be matched by artists like Mariee Sioux and Buffy St. Marie. This is Grimm at her best, fully reaching the potential she'd always possessed.......
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Larking Grimm | Parplar | Review
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Pitchforkmedia | Matthew MurphyGuiding her way with little more than guitar, dulcimer, and multi-tracked vocals, Grimm here quilts together Born Heller's icy, backwoods songcraft, Jana Hunter's homespun, lo-fi shimmer, and the ecstatic vocal peaks of Christina Carter- the influence of Grimm's roots in the Georgia foothills frequently creep through, lending the music a deep-set, handed-down fiber that sounds at once staunchly traditional yet still somehow quite unearthly.- Matthew Murphy, Pitchforkmedia...
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Akron/Family - four live songs
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daytrotter.comToday's Daytrotter features AK and four live songs recorded during 2008's SXSW in Austin, Texas. Download / Listen HERE...
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Larkin Grimm | Live Review
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Time Out New York | Jay RuttenbergThe singer, who is currently preparing an album for Young God Records, came of age in Appalachia, where her father was immersed in hillbilly music.Issue 659 : May 14–20, 2008 Live music show Larkin Grimm Union Pool; Fri, May 16 Like so many creators of edgy contemporary folk, Larkin Grimm is a second-generation hippie, born into a community of energy healers—a self-described “child of the cult.” The singer, who is currently preparing an album for Young God Records, came of age in Appalachia, where her father was immersed in hillbilly music. Like a character in a broadly drawn satirical novel, Grimm matriculated at a string of Ivy League colleges, hitchhiked across Alaska, and logged time in the mountains of Georgia and the noise-rock scene of Providence, where she currently resides. Somehow, the singer’s music digests elements from her sundry worlds. Accompanying herself on dulcimer and guitar, Grimm sounds at various times wild-eyed and placid, witchy and innocent. Yet she is best when she submits to her many eccentricities, manifested through bodily fixated lyrics and hair-raising singing that could spook a hardened cult leader. — Jay Ruttenberg http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/music/29538/larkin-grimm...
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Larkin Grimm | Interview
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foxydigitalis.com | Brad RoseHaving experienced so much already in her life, she has poured these adventures into songs about murder, love, sex, death... Larkin Grimm emerged from the woods last year with her amazing debut, "Harpoon," on Providence imprint Secret Eye. With an absolutely stunning and powerful voice, her songs have a life of their own. Her music is brutally bare and honest, but that only adds to its magic and its beauty. Larkin Grimm is an old soul making her way through the world. Having experienced so much already in her life, she has poured these adventures into songs about murder, love, sex, death... and she does it in a way that makes the most awful things seem beautiful. These ghost songs will haunt you long after they're over. This interview as conducted in March 2006. Where did you grow up and how has that effected your art and your music? From conception to age six, I grew up in a hippie spiritual cult/commune called The Holy Order of MANS. After my parents decided to leave the commune, we moved to a small town in the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia, just south of the North Carolina border. My father,......