SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA - TO BELIEVE

The Cinematic Orchestra
To Believe
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Cinematic Orchestra has just dropped their fourth album To Believe.

Although it’s been 12 years since they released their last album, the British nu jazz and electronic music group hasn’t lost any of their melodic beauty.

Their most well-known track “To Build a Home (featuring Patrick Watson),” which was on their last album Ma Fleur, was a simple piano and vocal-centred, heart-wrenching song that had a profound effect on many music lovers. The single was even used in the Orange Is The New Black finale and This Is Us.

The title track on To Believe is no different. While the track is a touch more complex than “To Build a Home (featuring Patrick Watson),” there is still that sweeping emotion that carries you away. Featuring Moses Sumney, the haunting vocals harmonize perfectly with the melody creating pure magic.

The remainder of the album holds to their signature sound, but with each track the group pushes the boundaries of what is musically capable. To Believe is an utter joy to sit back and listen to, reminding this music lover what it is to enjoy an entire album.

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Samantha Stevens

Samantha “Sam” Stevens is half a music journalist, and half an academic scholar. With a graduate diploma and MA in Journalism, Sam has covered musicians all over the world and her work has appeared in Guitar Girl magazine, North Bay Nugget newspaper, The Link newspaper, and a few others. She even founded and managed her own music blog The Littlest Voice for 5 years, in which the spotlight was thrown on new and emerging indie artists around the globe. Currently, Sam is a PhD student at Carleton University in the School of Indigenous and Canadian studies where she is continuing her MA research on colonial language in Canadian news and government institutions.

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