ÁTTA
A breathtakingly intimate, percussion-free ambient-classical drift. Sigur Rós returns with sweeping London Contemporary Orchestra strings and Jónsi's weightless falsetto.
June 16, 2023 · Krúnk
A breathtakingly intimate, percussion-free ambient-classical drift. Sigur Rós returns with sweeping London Contemporary Orchestra strings and Jónsi's weightless falsetto.
June 16, 2023 · Krúnk
A weightless, percussion-free drift of orchestral strings and falsetto replaces the old post-rock thunder. You are pulled into a quiet, slow-breathing space where acoustic warmth meets cold northern air. It feels like watching ice melt in slow motion, marking a fragile, deeply intimate return after a decade of silence.
“While 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”Read review
“With ambient strings and language-less vocals to the fore, the Icelandic art-rockers’ first album in a decade is in danger of washing right over you”Read review
“The Icelanders’ first album in 10 years, released ahead of a sold-out orchestral tour, ebbs and flows magnificently”Read review
“After a decade, the Icelandic band returns with an album of minimal music performed maximally, along with a 41-piece orchestra, climate despair, and Jónsi’s inimitable vocals”Read review
“Without a drummer but with an old friend back in the line-up, the post-rock pioneers return with a surprise record, their best since 2005’s ’Takk’”Read review
“This might not be the most urgent Sigur Rós album, but it’ll surely be remembered as one of their most gorgeous”Read review
“It’s a significant milestone, a step towards musical immortality that Sigur Rós feel destined for after having blown the possibilities for post-rock wide open”Read review
“The album closes with the remarkable nine-minute odyssey ‘8’, a meandering yet quietly emphatic piece, one that dares to utilise silence as an instrument in itself”Read review
“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”Read review
How does ÁTTA sound next to the rest of Sigur Rós's catalogue?
The band trades their familiar post-rock crescendos for a sweeping orchestral arrangement, letting the London Contemporary Orchestra build vast, cloud-like swells that suspend Jónsi's falsetto in mid-air.
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