★★★★★
The first thing that strikes you when listing to London Grammar is Hannah Reid's vocals; they are deep and sultry, immediately commanding your attention. She has a depth and power to her voice that earns comparisons to Florence Welch and Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes. It is her voice that will draw listeners to this warm and insular album. Her voice wraps around the sparse and spacious arrangements enveloping them...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
London Grammar
'If You Wait' (Metal & Dust / Ministry of Sound)
3
Ask a young band the question "So what are your influences?" and chances are they'll throw around some names from decades gone by...
- mamacolive.com
2013-09-19
★★★★★
More than the navel gazing album of 2013 (although its shadowy, late-night vibe certainly does invite the thinking of deep thoughts), London Grammar's debut full-length If You Wait represents a strong argument for instrumental austerity. With songs comprised of delicate cobwebs of little more than keys, guitar, and vocalist Hannah Reid's soprano slur, the London-based trio captures the fragile emotional state of youth rather than settling for an apathetic shade of gray...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-09-18
★★★★★
When an album is proclaimed the frontrunner for the UK's Mercury Music Prize before it's even released, it's a sign of both the accelerated nature of the modern hype cycle as well as a vote of confidence in a band's ability to deliver the goods. That London Grammar have been the latest recipients of this sort of breathless anticipation shouldn't shock-- their influences are the kind of alternative-but-still-polite acts generally favored by the prize, and they were featured on "Help Me Lose My...
- pitchfork.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
"On a horse called Autumn among certain decaying things she rides inside me, and no matter where I move this woman's song goes on ahead of me." --UK poet Brian Patten "On a Horse Called Autumn" from Collected Love Poems Sometimes you encounter a voice that stops you dead your in your tracks. It's the kind of voice that instantly evokes a mood, a particular emotion or even an entire season within its timbre...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-12
★★★★★
You won't need to wait long to understand the sound of London Grammar. It's all there on "Hey Now," the UK trio's opening track of this, their debut album. Hushed piano chords and lazy, languid, circular guitar lines create a bed that lead singer Hannah Reid floats above with a luxurious, chocolate syrupy voice somewhere between Kate Bush, Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan and Alison Moyet...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-11
★★★★★
What's The xx's music really like? It's cool, yet emotional; soft, yet powerful. One thing's for sure: Its catchy choruses, sweet bass lines, and Jamie xx's production have, historically speaking, been (relatively) incomparable, but in an entirely good way.
A recently conceived comparison, however, is finally here...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-09-11
★★★★★
opinion by BENJI TAYLOR
THE NEXT BIG THING. Such a label serves at once as a curse and a blessing, for messianic crowns come studded with thorns, and chalices emblazoned with this inscription are often tainted with poison. Custodians of the title can implode under the weight of expectation, or fail to bottle further the magic of that first hit single.
Not so for English art-rock trio London Grammar...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-09-10
★★★★★
Though London Grammar aren't the first act to replicate the xx's understated beats, the Nottingham-formed trio differ from their peers in employing a singer - Hannah Reid - who could be a British Stevie Nicks from the folk-rock scene of the mid-1970s. Theirs, then, is an unlikely mix of old and new and, while every single track on their debut album is beautifully constructed and impossible to dislike, it lacks the imperfections that excite...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-09-08
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