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"Schlanger is an empathetic ear for someone's wounded heart; her voice sure in its love, gently cradling ours."
-Lars Gotrich, NPR Music
"On her debut album Grace for the Going, Talia Schlanger is like heather — complex and paradoxical; nurturing and fragile and resilient. She brilliantly balances and delivers again and again an impressive duality. Her words carry strength and delicacy, but so does her voice, with the contradictions coming together to whip up an imitable force of nature... Schlanger’s beautiful debut teaches us a kind of simple kindness for the self, and by extension others, in such stark relief from the dispassionate, dissociative irony we often carry with us."
- Alisha Mughal, Exclaim! Magazine
"The nine tracks are twinkled and sometimes waltzed; woodwinds, strings and soft brass often appear. Relaxed melodies serve as invitations to Schlanger’s elegant storytelling and lullabies for grown-ups. Songs about faith, isolation, narrow bridges and vanishing voices are sung with the crystal-clear sincerity of a seasoned stage-musical performer. (Schlanger has appeared in Mamma Mia, Queen’s We Will Rock You and Green Day’s American Idiot.)"
- Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail