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- Summary: The latest solo album for the Icelandic composer is the second of a planned triology about technology and American brand names.
- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental
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In the end, the album is a fascinating musical thesis that can function with or without its brain intact.
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UncutHowever dry or highbrow it may sound on paper, Johannsson's melodious symphony of strings, electronics and choral elements is totally accessible and, for most of its 60-plus minutes, achingly lovely. [Jan 2008, p.101]
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MojoMuch looser and more interpretative than its predecessor. [Jan 2008, p.111]
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An ambitiously themed, leftfield, modern classical album that not only impresses, but totally enthrals.
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Beautiful, thoughtful, and sad on a grand scale, Fordlandia is nearly as ambitious as the stories it tells, but unlike its source material, it's another success for Jóhannsson.
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Fordlândia trilogy is simultaneously skillful, gorgeous, and a bit too polished--they're a pristine composition on a record full of them, but it doesn't gel with the messy, self-destructive historical footnotes that inspired them.
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So while Fordlandia may be his prettiest record, it’s arguably his dullest.
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