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Jun 16, 2023Like the group’s best work, its amorphous and vaguely defined nature makes it something you can explore again and again and still find something you hadn’t noticed.
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Aug 31, 2023While not the project's most mind-bending or boundary-pushing album, it’s their most stunningly gorgeous, and a successful, timely countermeasure to the symbolic cover art depicting a rainbow in flames.
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Jun 16, 2023Átta is an album which demands to be listened to in its entirety, a 56 minute journey which ebbs and flows magnificently. It’s exactly what you’d expect from Sigur Rós, with a few surprises thrown in, and without doubt one of the more welcome comeback stories of the year.
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Jun 20, 2023Sigur Rós have already proven themselves across their lengthy career, and now, they’re peaking their heads out yet again and making clear they shouldn’t be counted out.
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Jun 16, 2023ÁTTA is a welcome return to form and beyond for the band, ten years removed from their last studio release, and their partnership with a 41-piece orchestra is both logical and awe-striking.
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Jun 20, 2023At times, the tracks seem almost overburdened with poignancy - typically, the tectonic major to minor chordal shifts of Gold push Birgisson’s ululations into ever more heartrending melodic shapes – and everywhere a kind of voluptuous awestruck sublimity pervades. [Sep 2023, p.84]
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Jun 16, 2023‘ÁTTA’ is at least the band’s best album since 2005’s monolithic ‘Takk’ made them a household name, and at most a record that gives Sigur Rós plenty more reason to exist in adding some pure and natural soul to this cold and unfeeling world.
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Jun 16, 2023Sigur Ros’ world-building abilities haven’t been dulled by a decade of group inactivity – each moment is laden with colour, and mood.
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Jun 16, 2023This might not be the most urgent Sigur Rós album, but it'll surely be remembered as one of their most gorgeous. For a band so well known for all things beautiful, beauty for its own sake is hardly a problem.
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Jun 20, 2023This is not an album of passages or movements or suites. It’s best understood and appreciated as a collection of songs, of which there are clear highlights.
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UncutSep 18, 2023It pitches up somewhere between devotional music, modern classical and shoegaze and plays as a set piece, though the powerful ebb and flow of "Skel" stands out. [Nov 2023, p.32]
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Jun 20, 2023Átta has enough going for it to warrant an inspection from the rest of us, but it's both fairer and far more flattering to view it as the conclusion to a troubled chapter in the band's history than the enthusiastic heir to any hefty expectations you might otherwise burden it with.
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Jun 20, 2023Átta feels surprisingly unengaging.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 2 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Jun 17, 2023
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Jun 17, 2023Perfectly crafted sounds, one of the best Sigur Rós albums, if not the best.
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Jun 17, 2023Wow! This is a glorious album. Find a quiet place where you can immerse yourself in these beautiful songs.