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"Layered
synths blend with crystalline guitar work and the lofty voice of Kelly
O' Brien, resulting in a 70-minute, melancholy journey that flows from
ebbing to epical. One of the best, new female ethereal bands we've
heard!"
"This
is something special. Like Love Spirals Downwards or Love is Colder
Than Death before them, the musicians create a whirlpool of sound that
reaches up to caress the listener's ears and soothe their troubled
mind".
"Sometimes
I get tired and bogged down by all the heavy, harsh, and upbeat music
that frequents my CD player...that's when I turn to bands like Frolic
to sooth my wounds (just like the great fairy in Zelda)".
"Imagine
if you will the magical land of Narnia when you were a kid from *The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.* Remember how it was all covered in
sparkling snow when the children first set off ? Or even better... the
icy realms of the *The Ice Queen*? Take that magic and put it to music
and you have this incredible CD".
"O'Brien
weaves tones to make you feel as though her voice is indeed kissed by
God."
"...this
album has points which are pretty close to amazing for the ethereal
sound connoiseur."
Outburn
"Projekt
is known for cultivating
some of the best darkwave and ethereal acts over the years, and Frolic
are one of their best signings yet."
CD
Services
(Scotland)
"It
has been
a long, long time
since we had a genuinely brilliant album from the 'Heavenly Vocals'
genre that we
thought had all the right ingredients to be absolutely massive across a
wide
genre of tastes, but this is just genius on a plate."
Starvox.net
"Frolic
is
receiving deserved
attention with To Dream, Perchance to Sleep, their
ethereal
second release, on
Projekt."
Gothic
Preservation Society
"This CD has
the deep shifting
layers of a lot of the Projekt standbys - say, Love Spirals
Downwards - but a cleaner, slightly more purposeful
edge."
Ambientrance
"Folks
tend
to think of Projekt as
a "Goth" label, and tend to think of Goth as dark and creepy...
To Dream, Perchance to
Sleep is not that; heavenly flows
of ethereality bring an obtuse lightness to your world when Frolic
do their thing."
Electroage
"The
album's
title, an intentional
inversion of a line from Hamlet, is highly appropriate, as Frolic
entice the
listener into an engaging dream
world of ghostly images, haunting sounds and comforting escape."
All
Music
Guide (AMG)
"If
a
comparison could be made, a
possibility could be Slowdive's underrated exploration of ambient
approach Pygmalion,
with less emphasis on rock band sonics and more of sound qua sound."
The
Guardian (UK)
"In places the music sounds so
fragile that you fear it will break if you attempt to touch it."
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