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  • Band Name: Jonsi
  • Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: Apr 6, 2010
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Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critics What's this?

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8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 34 Ratings

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  • Summary: After releasing an album with boyfriend Alex Somers in 2009, the Sigur Ros singer returns with his first solo album produced with Peter Katis.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. The A.V. Club
    91
    Like a garden growing toward the sun, the album warms itself on the vibrant arrangements and piano of Nico Muhly, who also suffuses each song with a cinematic scope that flickers with flute, brass, strings, and skittering electronics.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    90
    What's really satisfying about Go is the way the soaring architecture of symphonic hipster du jour Nico Muhly's compositional work looms just as large on the more effervescent numbers as it does in these quieter spots - it really drawing everything together into a wonderfully coherent whole, despite the record's ever-shifting tides and Birgisson's violently affecting knack for distilling every emotion known to humanity into a single echoing chord change.
  3. BBC Music
    60
    Several perfectly agreeable songs are unexpectedly hijacked by a cacophonous onslaught of instruments, with Finnish percussionist Samuli Kosminen setting the furious pace.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. IlyaG.
    10
    Perfect album for perfect people.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. TimmyB
    10
    Simply put: everything Jonsi touches musically turns into gold. Dazzling and captivating, complex and serene, and unique. I started listening to Sigur Ros after reading the reviews on here for their album "Takk..."; subsequently, I love every album and now they are rivaling Radiohead for my favorite band. If you have an open mind musically and enjoy ambient elements in tunes, you should listen to this band and artist. It may take time to grow on you, but when it does, it's stellar. Their music (and Jonsi's with this solo effort) is so dynamic and takes you to "another place" when listening.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. PaulD
    10
    This has quickly become one of my favorite albums of all time. My favorite tracks are "Go Do", "Tornado", "Sinking Friendships", "Kolnidur" and "Grow Till Tall" but there isn't one bad song on the entire album. Jonsi is a modern musical genius and everyone should give him a listen.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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