Rivers - Wildbirds & Peacedrums
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  • Summary: The husband-and-wife Swedish duo's third album was recorded with an Icelandic choir.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
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  1. BBC Music
    80
    Recorded in a week in Reykjavik, this is music inevitably imbued with Iceland's stark grandeur and glacial eeriness; even if Wallentin's strident but wounded vocals retain a distinctive bluesy quality (albeit a blues closer to the funereal ceremonials of Diamanda Galas than Muddy Waters).
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    A fine evolution.
  3. Mojo
    80
    Rivers is a record that will haunt you long after you've heard it. [Sep 2010, p.99]
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  4. Q Magazine
    60
    The five Retina tracks are hauntingly intense....Iris is far warmer-sounding. [Sep 2010, p.123]
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