★★★★★
Iceland has a pretty decent track record when it comes to their musical exports; the isolated nation being home to the likes of Bjork and Sigur Ros. The country's latest big export is Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson, or Ásgeir as he is now more commonly known. His debut album Dýrð í Dauðaþögn was released in his native Iceland in 2012, earning him record-breaking sales and turning him into a household name - with an astounding one in ten people in Iceland owning the record...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-04-30
★★★★★
Ásgeir Trausti is a star back in Iceland, where record-breaking sales mean one in 10 of his countryfolk own a copy of this spellbinding debut. It's easy to hear his plaintive songs, full of heartbreak, mountains and fjords, and picture Ásgeir recording in Bon Iver-style isolation. The truth is more sociable - his father contributes lyrics (translated here by John Grant), his brother plays bass and the music shimmers into colour with tumbling guitar, waves of brass and flowing electronic pulses...
- www.nme.com
2014-01-28
★★★★★
Plaintive songs, full of heartbreak, mountains and fjords
7 / 10
Ásgeir Trausti is a star back in Iceland, where record-breaking sales mean one in 10 of his countryfolk own a copy of this spellbinding debut. It's easy to hear his plaintive songs, full of heartbreak, mountains and fjords, and picture Ásgeir recording in Bon Iver-style isolation...
- www.nme.com
2014-02-04
★★★★★
The ursine, middle-aged midwesterner and the waiflike, twentynothing Icelander might not seem the most likely candidates for a fanbase overlap, but you can see some simpatico in the combination of straight balladry and tricksy little electronic elements that fills In the Silence. Last year it became the biggest- and fastest-selling record by a home-grown Icelandic artist ever, outranking even blue-chip names like Björk and Sigur Rós. Apparently one in 10 of the population owns a copy...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-01-26
★★★★★
Not afraid to hum ... Ásgeir's In the Silence is Iceland's biggest-selling album ever Online, you can find a list of France's 1,000 biggest-selling singles of all time. For anyone not conversant with the French charts over the past 60 years, it's like something compiled for a joke by a committee involving Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel Farage. Every page provides some new logic-defying outrage...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-01-24
★★★★★
Last year, the Icelandic version of Asgeir Trausti's In the Silence became the country's most successful debut album by a homegrown artist, outselling even Björk and Sigur Rós, whose global profiles the folk-singer will surely emulate. With the original lyrics - mostly written by his father - translated into English by John Grant, it's clear how closely they suit Asgeir's angelic vocal tones...
- www.independent.co.uk
2014-02-04
★★★★★
As guitarist for The Lovely Lion, he made just a slight impact on a global scale - but assuming a solo guise, Ásgeir (or to be full-named, Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson) is set to ensnare anyone whose tickers are still beating red goo. He's poised to usurp both Björk and Sigur Rós as Iceland's foremost musical exports, after snatching a swath of awards and breaking a smorgasbord of records at the ripe old age of 21...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-02-04
★★★★★
From the land of sweeping, atmospheric, slightly odd music comes Asgeir and his first album, In The Silence. The biggest selling debut of all time in Iceland has been translated into English with the help of lyricist extraordinaire John Grant, whom he supported on his 2013 UK tour. Originally released in his homeland in 2012 and delayed from a September 2013 release in the UK, the album's unique lyrical composition comes from using lyrics taken from his septuagenarian father's poetry...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2014-01-20
★★★★★
For a country with a population roughly that of Wakefield or Coventry, Iceland has produced more than its fair share of musical exports. Björk and Sigur Rós are firmly established as internationally renowned megastars, Of Monsters and Men and Ólafur Arnalds have enjoyed breakout success across the world in the last couple of years, and the likes of Sóley, Sin Fang, FM Belfast and Retro Stefson have all garnered cult followings...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-01-20
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