- Record Label: Century Media
- Release Date: Nov 13, 2015
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Dec 14, 2015While each disc stands on its own, it's the sum total that makes this a career-defining work.
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Kerrang!Dec 14, 2015It's an epic journey, and one that both requires and repays immersion and patience. [14 Nov 2015, p.53]
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Dec 14, 2015It’s not that there isn’t anything to love in Songs from the North—there’s plenty, especially on II and III. Instead, the listener is given far too much. With such excess, “too much of a good thing” though it is, diminishing returns are bound to follow.
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Dec 14, 2015Swallow the Sun should have released this as three separate albums. The connection between the three pieces is frail, and given the relative lack of direction this is not a surprise. The album’s strengths are numerous, yet scattered, and its weaknesses are unfortunately a lot more concentrated.