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10.0
82315
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A.V. Club
This is the soundtrack to the decline of our species, once again illustrating that Sunn O))) is one of the most interesting and progressive groups in heavy music
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9.0
82491
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
For a group who have perfected the art of extracting as much from a single musical note as is humanly possible, it’s startling to hear how much breadth for evolution and continued experimentation Sunn O))) have left themselves with to play wit
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8.3
82282
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s arguably their best composition to date
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8.0
82280
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
An exhilarating, colon-shaking song cycle of pitch black metal that will perfectly complement those approaching January blues
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8.0
82286
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Will thrill anyone looking for doom-metal riffs doused in Mogadon and played at extreme volume
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8.0
82292
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The three tracks on Kannon comprise perhaps their least diverse album since their formative, early-Noughties period
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8.0
82293
8.0 |
Under The Radar
It's the sound of a band at once distilled to its essence and at the height of its powers
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8.0
82296
8.0 |
PopMatters
A magical and darkly pastoral haven for the transformed
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8.0
82317
8.0 |
The Guardian
There’s something surprisingly calming about Kannon, something that hints at the hidden depths beneath Sunn O)))’s cloak-and-dagger routine
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8.0
82324
8.0 |
All Music
On Kannon, Sunn O))) illustrates through heavy sonic immersion that noise and silence are equals - aspects of circular, self-perpetuating emptiness
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8.0
82343
8.0 |
The FT
The riffs are slow and intense, their textures shifting like dark clouds, a perverse kind of ambient music
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8.0
82345
8.0 |
The Observer
Kannon sounds astonishing: by turns eerie, hypnotic and thrilling
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8.0
82284
8.0 |
Uncut
Not since 2004’s White2 has the band been so pared down or sounded so focussed on the mission of achieving maximum density
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8.0
82375
8.0 |
Gig Soup
Given a little time it is amazing just how much ‘Kannon’ gives back
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8.0
82451
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musicOMH
Strange as it might seem, this is not a return to Sunn O)))’s metal roots, but is instead, for all intents and purposes, their pop album
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8.0
82469
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The Music
It harks back to their debut OO Void arguably more than anything they've released since, but it's also a monument as to how much they've developed
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7.0
82390
7.0 |
Spin
Even as they add unimaginable depths to a deceptively simple form, Kannon reasserts their commitment to merely existing, unapologetically out of genre and out of time
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7.0
82410
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Words can’t truly convey what listening to Sunn 0))) is really like
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7.0
82837
7.0 |
Art Rocker
Kannon slow burns to something impressive, mesmeric and monumental
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7.0
82366
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
It’s hard not to admire their beatific integrity anyway, and, at a high enough volume, surrender to it completely
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7.0
82283
7.0 |
Exclaim
Kannon is Sunn O)))'s most sparse offering in years
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6.5
82281
6.5 |
Pitchfork
Where Kannon exceeds as a collection of moments, it fails as both an album and an experience, especially given the general Sunn O))) scale
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6.0
82285
6.0 |
Mojo
Slo-mo riffs which seem to progress on a geological time scale. Print edition only
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6.0
82492
6.0 |
NME
This is tinkering around the edges of a formula rather than a bold stylistic shift
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6.0
82414
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NOW
The band's first proper non-collaborative record in over five years, Kannon may well be their heaviest offering yet
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5.0
82473
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Kannon’s constrictive forms encourage its consumability, which prevents it from achieving the limit-transcending power of other works
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5.0
82385
5.0 |
Crack
If you can be so reductive as to judge this and Monoliths as albums defined by their final, dying embers, then Kannon doesn’t quite match up to its esteemed predecessor
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