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Generally favorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings
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Positive: 23 out of 33
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Mixed: 7 out of 33
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Negative: 3 out of 33
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Jul 18, 2015
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Jan 31, 2015This album is great to listen to while you do anything really. It is a little bit muddled, starting out with screams and ending in strange clicking sounds in some of the later songs. Besides the fact that it never really builds up to anything specific, the interesting wash of white noise, with cathartic hymns and an unsettling atmosphere makes this a decent album and a fantastic debut.
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Jun 28, 2013I'm giving this album a 3 because there are literally 3 songs on the whole collection. I love Sigur Ros and and I'm always down for moody atmospheric music but this has absolutely no song structure apart from Track 3 (Fantastic) Track 5 (Real Good) and Title Track 9 (Average). Kudos for being different but I don't need an album that is white noise 80% of the time
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Dec 6, 2012
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JuliaAFeb 14, 2007The energy in this record is still raw,but unfortunately they didn't have the plan of what would they do with this one...but I still like 'Dogun','Hun Jord' and 'Syndir Guds (Opinberun Frelsarans)'.luckily they got things right with their albums after this one.
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TomBiswrongOct 25, 2006Umm, Tom B, you are wrong about this being a "later" album from Sigur Rós, in fact this is actually their first album. I just though I would make that clear.
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TomBJul 15, 2006
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BearlyyBJan 19, 2006This is like listening to the wind. Agaetis Byrjun is amazing.
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Based on pure sound, Von is just as much of a treat as the acclaimed follow-up.
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The beauteous wash of sound, an otherworldly choir; a dystopian aural experience, both blissfully narcotic and nightmarishly grounding.
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BlenderSlower into its stride, with tune-free twittering and dull homages to FX-pedal rock making up the first half. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.123]