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    Rolling Stone Magazine, October 2011
    New Faces 2011 Feature


    Rhythms Magazine, September 2011


    Triple J Feature Album

    Our feature album this week is Early Summer from Melbourne's Amaya Laucirica. The second album from the singer/songwriter and her band, it's a wistful, tender affair, full of dreamy melodies and sublime layers of sound. You may not have heard of her before this week, but you won't soon forget her. Early Summer by Amaya Laucirica, our Australian feature album on Triple J this week.


    Mess and Noise Album Review

    On her second album, Amaya Laucirica retains the same trio of multi-instrumentalists – Andrew Cowie, Andrew Keese, and Richard Martin – from her 2008 debut, Sugar Lights. They’re joined this time by J.P. Shilo, who handles strings and other embellishment.

    Due partly to Shilo’s contributions and partly to Laucirica’s own evolution, Early Summer is a dreamier, more ruminative affair. She now sounds less like a singer-songwriter with a band behind her and more like a band leader, twanging her smoky sigh with sureness against the richest of textures.

    If her lyrics can get lost in all that enveloping prettiness, these songs grow more tangible and accessible as we learn their individual shapes ... Read More

     

    'Early Summer' #37 - Mess and Noise Critics Poll (2010)

    “It’s an album marked by understatement and restraint, no matter how many different instruments materialise."


    Album Review - Beat Magazine December 2010


    Album Review - Inpress Magazine October 2010

     

    'Early Summer' Album Review - The Dwarf

    Here, on Early Summer, is your invitation to the dreamy world of Amaya Laucirica – Adelaide turned Sydney turned Melbourne singer songwriter, who, on her latest release, delivers something smooth and welcoming; a collection of ambient country tunes to soothe the most restless of souls ... Read More


    'Sugar Lights' Album Of The Week - RRR Radio

    The debut album from Amaya Laucirica is an ethereally beautiful record of assured songwriting and masterful arrangements. Throughout its ten tracks Sugar Lights constantly impresses the listener with its vibrancy, engaging storytelling and subtle craft ... Read More


    Single of the Week - Rave Magazine

    Occasionally there’s something intangible that makes one tender guitar ballad the answer to your anxieties, or at least respite from them for 2 minutes 42 seconds, and every other tender guitar ballad the catalyst to tune out or change stations. Melbourne-based Amaya Laucirica is this week’s unexplained but definite mood lifter, with her lilting, relaxed, cuddled-up-on-a-warm-verandah soundtrack If You Look Now.

    Part of that comfortable smile you’ll get is undeniably brought by Amaya’s gorgeous, broadly soothing voice, and when it’s part of a harmony, good lord, you’ll be wishing it was Sunday morning and you were hungover all over again, just to witness its redemptive powers.

    Once you’ve heard this debut’s simplicity, it won’t be as surprising to read some of the names involved – Bad Seed Mick Harvey on arrangements and Peter J. Moore (I didn’t know him either but he’s produced the Cowboy Junkies, which gives you an idea of what’s here) on production. – but the escapist triumph here can’t be put down to anyone but Laucirica herself. This is a welcome surprise of a debut ... Read More