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MojoDec 22, 2011This is charming. And uplifting. Happy-sad but impossibly soothing. [Nov 2011, p.92]
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MagnetNov 11, 2011"It's not sad, but it's not OK," sings Emil Svanangen on Hall Music, neatly delineating the album's emotional landscape, a narrow isthmus of calm stretching into a sea of sorrow. [#81, p. 57]
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Under The RadarNov 3, 2011The album is most striking in what it conveys in simplicity. [Oct 2011, p.101]
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Oct 13, 2011It's as though each song represents the push and pull of a mismatched relationship--and, brilliantly, the final word goes to the woman, with Malin Stahlberg singing What Have I Become? in a voice crushed by defeat yet bright with defiance.
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Oct 4, 2011Loney, Dear hasn't changed much, and that's what makes this inimitable album such great company.
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Jan 13, 2012This music is big enough for a hall, but soft and heartfelt enough for the quietest corner.
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Oct 19, 2011Hall Music, continues this reticent foray, concealing its quaint charms until six or seven concentrated plays have been sucked up and digested.
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Oct 17, 2011It's the sort of album that makes you want to lay down between the speakers and close your eyes; it's an album in which to get swept up.
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Oct 17, 2011Still not Friday night material, then, but a moving display of one man's myriad sorrows nonetheless. Bless.
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Oct 4, 2011In the end, Hall Music is an enjoyable but paradoxical album, both an expansion and contraction of Svanängen's palette.
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Oct 4, 2011Hall Music offers some thrilling contrasts, both in style and mood, giving Loney, Dear's sound a more orchestral makeover.
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Oct 6, 2011For all the sonic strides Svanangen takes on Hall Music, he sometimes seems stuck singing the same sad song.
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Oct 12, 2011This is an artist that certainly knows how to kick it in, but you spend most of your time waiting for it.
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Oct 4, 2011Where Dear John hinted at cinematic grandeur and prayer-like melody, Hall Music is a spacious and somber affair.