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From The Valley To The Stars
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews What's this?

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6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the sophomore album for Swedish singer Sarah Assbring.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    90
    So, if you're with indie-pop’s backward-gazing contingent, or if you prefer it when ‘achingly beautiful’ actually aches, or if you want an example of style-versus-substance as a false dilemma--then get this record.
  2. Under The Radar
    80
    With From the Valley to the Stars, El Peroo del Mar has not only avoided the sophomore slump that plauges so many singer/songwriters, she may have even passed the triumph of her debut. [Spring 2008, p.75]
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  3. AllMusic
    80
    From the Valley to the Stars is a fairly magical trip to the center of heartache.
  4. No Ripcord
    60
    From The Valley To The Stars is simply a collection of mostly good and occasionally great songs that just doesn’t quite work as a whole.
  5. Delusions of Adequacy
    60
    These songs sound more like parts of songs that have been extracted from something bigger and more fully realized.
  6. The Guardian
    60
    It is very beautiful, ethereally so, its chanted, chiming vocals wafting over multilayered instrumental tracks as delicate and intricately constructed as lace.... Despite that, the 16 songs together lack variety, one drifting into another, the overall mood too solemn and somnolent.
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  7. Village Voice
    40
    Serene but emotionally flat, Valley feels like too much church on a cold Sunday afternoon.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. HotTub
    May 30, 2008
    4
    First record is pretty solid. This one is not pretty solid.
  2. PabloH.
    Sep 5, 2008
    3
    No recommendable.
  4. AlérianF.
    Sep 5, 2008
    2
    For being so sad this woman gets a beastly sound, the melodies are not so bad and the lyrics pure trash from a rich kid who suffer too much, For being so sad this woman gets a beastly sound, the melodies are not so bad and the lyrics pure trash from a rich kid who suffer too much, where are the angels?… Expand
  5. RodrigoA.
    Sep 5, 2008
    1
    So boring, so aching, so fake, so stupid... it´s not a nothing. I heard all album and feel a lot of untrue feelings.