Rolling Stone (1/4/01, p.116) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000". Rolling Stone (9/28/00, p.61) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The most bizzarely beautiful import from Iceland since Bjork..." Spin (1/01, p.73) - Ranked #13 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]". Spin (10/00, pp.177-8) - 8 out of 10 - "...All midnight-sun and bummed-Viking angst. Jon or Birgisson's lovely, breathless vocals glide over guitar clouds, and drums boom along at a languid pace as the songs slowly approach bliss-out..." Uncut - "[o]ne of Agaetis Byrjun's defining features is its unbound sense of optimism, the idea that pop music still had some way to go before surrendering its possibilities." Magnet (p.118) - "The album' mixture of cello-bowed guitar, sugar-frosted strings and heavenly human choruses would have a huge impact on tourmates Radiohead, whose ice-age anti-statement KID A remains indebted to this mini-masterpiece." CMJ (10/30/00, p.22) - "...Deep, almost primordial beauty....It doesn't get much more sublime than this." Mojo (Publisher) (p.58) - Ranked #70 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "So captivatingly diffuse, AGAETIS BYRJUN sounds as though it was beamed in from 1,000 years ago." NME (Magazine) (12/30/00, p.79) - Ranked #35 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year" - "...The shoegazing soundtrack to frozen skies and magma flows..."

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