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10.0
134316
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
Oh my, all the feels are there
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9.0
134311
9.0 |
musicOMH
The Icelanders’ first album in 10 years, released ahead of a sold-out orchestral tour, ebbs and flows magnificently
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9.0
135038
9.0 |
All Music
While not the project's most mind-bending or boundary-pushing album, it’s their most stunningly gorgeous, and a successful, timely countermeasure to the symbolic cover art depicting a rainbow in flames
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8.5
134337
8.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Sigur Rós have already proven themselves across their lengthy career, and now, they’re peaking their heads out yet again and making clear they shouldn’t be counted out
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8.4
134312
8.4 |
Paste Magazine
It’s a significant milestone, a step towards musical immortality that Sigur Rós feel destined for after having blown the possibilities for post-rock wide open
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8.0
134313
8.0 |
Exclaim
This might not be the most urgent Sigur Rós album, but it'll surely be remembered as one of their most gorgeous
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8.0
134314
8.0 |
Clash
The album closes with the remarkable nine-minute odyssey ‘8’, a meandering yet quietly emphatic piece, one that dares to utilise silence as an instrument in itself
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8.0
134315
8.0 |
NME
Without a drummer but with an old friend back in the line-up, the post-rock pioneers return with a surprise record, their best since 2005's 'Takk'
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7.5
134424
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Easy-listening is associated with cheesy songs made for mass-consumption; but this album is easy because it doesn’t want to be difficult, and revels in its lack of jagged edges
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7.2
134339
7.2 |
Pitchfork
After a decade, the Icelandic band returns with an album of minimal music performed maximally, along with a 41-piece orchestra, climate despair, and Jónsi’s inimitable vocals
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6.8
134334
6.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It's both fairer and far more flattering to view it as the conclusion to a troubled chapter in the band's history than the enthusiastic heir to any hefty expectations you might otherwise burden it with
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6.0
134367
6.0 |
The Observer
With ambient strings and language-less vocals to the fore, the Icelandic art-rockers’ first album in a decade is in danger of washing right over you
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