- post-rock, ambient, ambient pop
- 54 min
- 8 tracks
- EMI Music Japan Inc.
Valtari is the sixth studio album by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. It was released on 23 May 2012 by Parlophone. The album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and seven on the Billboard 200. The album was met with positive reviews as well with Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Character
Character-led, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 74/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.3/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubA−
- BBC MusicPositive
- Drowned in Sound8/10
- NME7/10
- The Observer3/5 ★
- Pitchfork6.1/10
- PopMatters7/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Ég anda6:15
- 2Ekki múkk7:45
- 3Varúð6:37
- 4Rembihnútur5:05
- 5Dauðalogn6:37
- 6Varðeldur6:01
- 7Valtari8:19
- 8Fjögur píanó7:50
8 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Sigur Rós
- Label
- EMI Music Japan Inc.
- Released
- May 23, 2012
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- JP
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