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Von

Sigur Rós

Von

The 1997 first album from the respected ambient Icelanders, released for the first time outside of their home country

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Smekkleysa
UK Release date
04/05/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    After three years of experimentation, Von came out the same year as OK Computer and Young Team (1997), and well after the UK’s shoegaze scene had disintegrated, meaning that the band had a clearer vision of which aspect of their sound to develop. 
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Its title is both prophetic and appropriate: 'Von' meaning 'hope'. If we can take this literally, the album becomes a valuable prologue to the band's later accomplishments. For that alone it deserves to be celebrated
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  3. 7.8 |   Pitchfork

    Even in its most conventional moments, Von sounds utterly unlike anything from the period, and is only tentatively allusive of the band's fecund latter-day output.
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  4. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Von does have a somewhat greyer, more generically post-rock sound about it, with echoes of Pink Floyd leavening the gothic gloom
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