Tracing Arcs have a place among the finest artists that I've ever had the pleasure of discovering on Jamendo. It's a rare treat to discover music so beautifully written, performed, and produced. Inevitably, comparisons with Portishead and Massive Attack are bound to come to mind when listening to any artist playing this sort of music, and the similarities certainly stick here. However, this is far more than a simple carbon copy of a tried and tested formula. Instead, Tracing Arcs have built on the genre, and have made it their own, and for that they deserve recognition. Highlights of the album for me include "Crytalk" (loving the electric piano work here!), "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Desperate Measures". Truly a beautiful album that should be heard by anyone who's got the time!

Instantaneously captivated, it took some consecutive hearings, to clear my mind and grow some thinking inside my head, about these glorious and passionate musical set of tracks. Not one or two... or even three, but ten. Ten very intense moments of musical seduction, on the account of a very intimate and extremely sensual environment, to which the hot, calm yet delightfully provocative female vocals, are irrefutably and in a first instance, directly responsible. Nevertheless, as the hearing takes place, the initial strong appeal from the vocals, goes naturally diluting by integration, in the perfectly involving, instrumental structures, which prove not to be, decidedly, merely a basis or simple support for the vocals. The sound is very smooth and fairly bodied... and here, is where the almost always discreet yet very present bass work, gets a lot of responsibility. Despite having a dark shadowed kind of sonority, there's this constant jazz aroma, also delivered by the vocals, not too intense and almost sweet enough, to instigate a calm inspiring sensation... sometimes almost healing and cleanser for bad thoughts and stubborn memories.

J'avais beaucoup aimé le précédent album, mais celui-ci est .........à vous de ressentir les émotions qu'il dégage, et la voix est exceptionnelle... B R A V O !!! et merci à Balthaz pour la recommendation

Magnifique Trip-Hop, aux ambiances variées, mais de qualité constante.. Pig and cow me fait méme penser à Moriarty... merci à Organic Despair pour la recco.

Trip hop, downtempo, nu jazz...album d'une fabuleuse qualité "Through a glass darkly" est un ptit bijou d'émotion et de sensibilité...dans la droite ligne des Massive Tout l'album est du même acabit...un régal

Un bellissimo album, stilisticamente omogeneo e variegato nell'ispirazione, composizioni sorrette da ottima tecnica, non appariscente o esibita ma solida. Un universo sonoro dove notturni,vellutati viaggi ritmici porgono il battito ad una voce sognante,dolcissima e profonda. Le mie preferite sono "Crytalk" e " A pig and a cow", sicuramente si può parlare di trip-hop di alto livello, con un'aspetto ritmico ancora più dilatato, rilassato. Vero musica d'atmosfera, ma non di sottofondo. Grazie per condividere la vostra musica con noi. Spero di ascoltare presto un nuovo album. A beautiful album, stylistically consistent and varied in inspiration, compositions are supported by excellent technique,not flashy or exhibited but solid. A sound universe where night trips,velvety and rhythmic offers the beat to a dreaming voice,sweet and deep. My favorites tracks are "Crytalk" and "A pig and a cow", surely we can talk about high-level trip-hop, but with the rhythmic even more dilated, relaxed. Its true mood music,but not background music,please . Thank you for sharing your music with us. I hope to hear soon a new album.

Emporté d'emblée à l'exact endroit ou le précédent album m'avait abandonné, et littéralement et instantanément envouté par la voix de Fran Kapelle (lire ma critique sur remixes & lost children). Encore meilleur que le précédent ? C'est ce que je pense. Oscillant avec bonheur entre jazz chillout (Babydoll) et nujazz inspiré, l'ensemble comble toute les attentes. 'Crytalk', Through a Glass Darkly' sont à elles seules de purs chef-d'œuvres. Le disque de chevet idéal pour les prochaines vacances.

nice music, dark, ambient, but vocal is too loud for me very nice background music in songs

Une voix de velours chaude comme un lait de vanille portée par une ambiance veloutée et brumeuse... Trip-hop sur ballade jazzy aux contours easy listening, le voyage que nous propose cet album est aussi envoûtant que la voix délicieusement traînante de la chanteuse... J'adore. .

Disturbing, full of darkness triphop... This album is wonderful like a "Mezzanine" Massive Attack... You are great! Congratulations, thx for this publication:) Respect.