Album Review: Grapell Make Me An Open “Crier” For This World

Grapell’s Crier, literally, feels like the word itself. Through each song, lead singer Emil Erstrand whimpers with the pain of a really bad day. We have all had them, and they are not necessarily born from a “tragedy”. Sometimes, life can feel like gloom because, simply, it does not feel like a spark, of which Crier is for those that understand feeling like you are stuck in nowhere is worth tears.

Grapell’s Crier is simple, slow, and seething in silent, subtle vulnerabilities. Such an ambiance is natural when the Swedish duo wrote the album as a distant look on the world’s current state. The irony of their creative process is that, in describing the world’s urgent need for care and compassion, they took their time. For Grapell a message, especially of woe, warning, and hope, is best sent through lento rhythms that densely dance amongst themselves and somberness. Frankly, I love it. Tracks like, “Crier”, “We Can Only Blame Ourselves”, “Your Silence”, and “Torture By Recalling”, sonically sound like a party for shadows. There is an innate grieving to Crier that embodies Grapell’s sincere feeling that humanity should feel ashamed and alarmed for letting its repeated, bad behavior accost such destructive prices. To send this rightful, but heavy message, Emil Erstrand and Nils Nygårdh are ready to construct romantically bright melodies for star-crossed verses. In feeling like loss is inevitable, you start to gain, and Crier feels like songs for those looking for a win.

Let us be honest! Death, and its growing violent and unexpected nature, has become an even more dangerous cut-off to love. This fact pervades in Crier, but also in lead vocalist Erstrand’s voice. To put it simply, his voice is so pretty. He dwindles and dabbles at hurt like it was dough, of which his voice was molding through chords like fingers. He is quiet, fragile, and building rage into resilience as seen from “No Longer Free” to “When The World Ends (I Want To Be With You)”. Such sentiments are a union between pleasantry and melancholia, which can feel like the most likely pair in this current world. Thus, Grapell’s Crier, out November 3, is a successful debut by showing you can make a gorgeous record be an important one. For More Information On Grapell Click Here.