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9.0
121911
9.0 |
PopMatters
Shiver is Jónsi but not as we know him. The Sigur Rós frontman teams with avant-garde electronic producer A. G. Cook to create a new sound and direction in the veteran experimentalist's career
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8.3
121950
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
The Sigur Rós frontman returns with atmospheric art-pop full of hope and glitchy dread
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8.0
121987
8.0 |
All Music
Despite the prominent guest stars and radical musical changes, Shiver's focus is always on Jónsi and his innate gift for expressing pure feeling. As he reinvents what is essential to his music, he delivers some previously unimagined thrills
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8.0
121988
8.0 |
The Observer
Co-producer AG Cook strips back Jónsi’s first album in a decade to a clever mix of crunchy electronica and floating vocals
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8.0
121920
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Shiver fuses trap beats with industrial interludes on the stormy “Kórall,” while the closing couplet of “Grenade” and “Beautiful Body” might just represent the most soothing finale to an album these ears have been exposed to all year
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8.0
121935
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Shiver is a treat of an album that gives you so much to explore. It will keep you busy into the colder winter months and presumably keep you warm with dreams of Iceland and all its magical inhabitants
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7.0
121923
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Immersive and revealing more of itself with each listen, Shiver is a remarkable return from Jónsi
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7.0
121906
7.0 |
Clash
‘Shiver’ provides an enjoyable glimpse into Jónsi’s direction, but struggles to balance the tonal dichotomies of abrasive electronic freak-outs and blissful melancholia central to the album’s appeal
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7.0
121908
7.0 |
musicOMH
Shiver may be a step out of Jónsi’s comfort zone, but it’s a step that seems to have reinvigorated him
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6.0
122006
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
It is an album with missed opportunities, where you don’t feel you are getting the best possible version of some key songs
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6.0
121924
6.0 |
NME
Alt. pop meets post-rock on this upbeat second solo album from the indie star more often associated with a sense of melancholia. The guestlist rocks, too
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6.0
121940
6.0 |
The FT
he Icelandic singer’s new solo album includes guest turns from Robyn and Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser
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6.0
121943
6.0 |
Mojo
In all, more a series of disconnected building blocks than a cohesive album. Print edition only
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6.0
121944
6.0 |
Uncut
Sometimes feels like a glitchcore sound collage, where ambient passages are ruptured by harsh beats and clamorous noise. Print edition only
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5.5
122179
5.5 |
Pitchfork
The Sigur Rós frontman’s muddled attempt at a pop album is a cathedral of feelings without referents: beautiful, boring, generically uplifting, and deliberately meaningless
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5.0
121985
5.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It doesn’t feel like Jónsi’s sure of himself or his own artistic vision right now
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4.6
122305
4.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
An all-over-the-place attempt at avant-pop ranging from sporadically successful to baffling and obnoxious
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