Living Room Songs
- Ólafur Arnalds
- Band Name: Ólafur Arnalds
- Record Label: Erased Tapes Records
- Release Date: Dec 6, 2011
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Feb 8, 201280It certainly meets every expectation, albeit without stretching far beyond anticipated designs.
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Feb 8, 201280Living Room Songs may not exceed 25 minutes in length but this is still an album to luxuriate in and one that fans of traditional classical composers such as Arvo Pärt and Henryk Górecki will find to their satisfaction.
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Feb 8, 201270Living Room Songs succeeds specifically because Arnalds does not try to build it into a masterwork.
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Feb 8, 201256Apart from the aptly titled "Film Credits," which, worthily, plays much like a ode to Max Richter, the music on the remainder of the album is left to unsatisfying and grey piano suites that don't sound destined for a more open setting nor benefit from the intimate setting of Arnalds' own living room.
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Feb 27, 201245The music is pretty but still--without many shifts in color or tone, they sit there like flat, two-dimensional objects.