It’s all relentlessly gloomy but mightily impressive, like the soundtrack to a particularly bleak but compelling horror movie.
Despite its hefty length and heftier emotions, Ceremony’s integral beauty makes its navigation an absolute delight.
Ceremony is a gorgeous, provocative, and remarkably mature offering from a young composer and songwriter. It is attractive not only for its unusual, sophisticated musical presentation and smart, poetic lyricism, but for its canny instinct as well.
It's not an album you hear every day. It's deep and powerful, and your everyday singer-songwriter couldn't construct such a record.
This album is good, and I think if it's the first work you hear from Anna, you'll have a very different impression.
Anna always innovates in her sound, even bringing dark sounds, the way she delivers is always different, and this is a very positive point.
Your first album has a very strong folk music sound, bringing very interesting melodies and ideas, and it's the "easiest" album to be listened to, as it's not as experimental as the rest of your work.
Here we can already see a good ... read more
Anna Von Hausswollf 2nd studio album is another great dark ambient neoclassical darkwave which still contains that lovel cold almost death like experience i enjoy from her work and contains some of her more overlooked songs such as Deathbed
Track Review
Epitaph of Theodor 9/10
Deathbed 9/10
Mountains Grave 10/10
Goodbye 8.5/10.
Red Sun 8.5/10.
Epitaph of Daniel 7.5/10.
No Body 7/10
Liturgy of Light 9/10
Harmonica 8/10
Ocean 7.5/10.
Sova 7.5/10.
Funeral for My Future Children 8.5/10.
Sun Rise ... read more
Neither as darkly enveloping nor as consistently impressive as the later albums but still plenty worthwhile I assure you 😊
A love letter for atmospheric organ music, this LP feels like a beautiful mass, totally meant from a person that was taken into multiple ones in his childhood unwillingly.
Anna von Hausswolff is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and pipe organist. She has created an ambiance that is stunning and distressing in the best sense of the word. This is in part achieved by the crescendo of the directing melodies that become more evident towards the end of each song, where it hits the climax in terms of ... read more
1 | Epitaph of Theodor 5:25 | 87 |
2 | Deathbed 8:39 | 88 |
3 | Mountains Crave 3:35 | 86 |
4 | Goodbye 6:17 | 86 |
5 | Red Sun 3:18 | 86 |
6 | Epitaph of Daniel 3:11 | 86 |
7 | No Body 2:34 | 81 |
8 | Liturgy of Light 5:01 | 88 |
9 | Harmonica 4:22 | 84 |
10 | Ocean 5:45 | 88 |
11 | Sova 3:24 | 86 |
12 | Funeral for My Future Children 4:43 | 88 |
13 | Sun Rise 4:52 | 86 |