★★★★★
Wayne McGregor's choreography can be unsettling in its unpredictability. In his dance piece, Atomos, the performers follow their own trajectories, ping-ponging off of one another, coming together briefly and then breaking apart again. They never seem to make the same move in exactly the same way twice, and the narrative of their motion is grounded in chaos. Indeed, they are like atoms colliding with one another...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-01-05
★★★★★
Wayne McGregor has great taste in ambient music. I saw his piece FAR a couple years ago, and hearing Ben Frost's delicate yet concussive score, then unreleased, was as rich a part of the experience as watching the dance. McGregor has also commissioned music from the likes of Max Richter (Sum and Infra) and Ólafur Arnalds (Dyad 1909), and you can add to that list A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a collaboration between Stars of the Lid's Adam Wiltzie and pianist Dustin O'Halloran...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
British choreographer Wayne McGregor is known for opening up his artistic process to ideas and methods of science. The Random Dance director has collaborated with experimental psychologists and cognitive scientists on the development of his pieces, and used heart imaging and other cutting-edge technologies to spur creation...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
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Contemporary dance may not be the first thing which comes to mind when you hear the music of A Winged Victory for the Sullen. The ambient classical ensemble formed by Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid) and Dustin O'Halloran created a beautiful, melancholic mix of low-end piano, strings and drone for their self-titled debut album, so perhaps it comes as a surprise that this follow-up, Atomos, was written for a new work of contemporary dance at...
- www.thefourohfive.com
2014-10-09
★★★★★
Fans of the orchestral ambient duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen were treated to a preview of the score to their Wayne McGregor-commissioned ballet when they released the EP in early 2014. And with the full-length, , we now have context for it. As you could have guessed from that track, this album is all about droning atmospheres drifting with sombre strings and poignant piano in a celestial and evocative tone, but the sound has evolved from the eponymous 2011 debut of the project helmed by...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-10
★★★★★
Out of all of the incredible artists signed to Erased Tapes there has always been a feeling that it is the music of A Winged Victory For The Sullen that is the most distilled, crystalline and pure. In a year that has seen the label release a number of albums that have quietly expanded their usual boundaries it seems only appropriate that Stars Of The Lid's Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran follow suit on their second full-length work, Atomos...
- www.musicomh.com
2014-10-07
★★★★★
Years ago now I reviewed 's masterful, droning, ambient-orchestral for this site. One interesting thing to note about that record--aside from the fact that it made me come over all gooey and start using words like 'celestial' --is that, like , it came out in the autumn. I'm not sure that you could put Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran's music out at any other time of year, really. I mean you could. But I'm not sure it'd make as much sense...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-10-06
★★★★★
Label:
Erased Tapes
Release Date:
06/10/2014
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Years ago now I reviewed A Winged Victory for the Sullen's masterful, droning, ambient-orchestral debut for this site. One interesting thing to note about that record--aside from the fact that it made me come over all gooey and start using words like 'celestial' --is that, like Atomos, it came out in the autumn...
- drownedinsound.com
2014-10-07
★★★★★
Without wanting to descend too far into the kind of terminology that lends itself exclusively to classical music - because there's much more to A Winged Victory for the Sullen than that - the fact that this second record is effectively split up into a collection of suites means that plucking one of them - "Atomos VII", to be precise - and releasing it as an EP with which to preface Atomos allowed the duo to both give listeners a representative taste of the album proper and encourage them to use...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-10-04
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