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Nov 14, 2025Is it a rewarding listen? Most definitely. It will take time to fully get to grips with everything that the album has to offer, such is the breadth and depth of Iconoclasts. Its importance lies in its central message, which is (possibly) that healing is possible, even when it doesn’t seem to be. It’s a stunning achievement and quite possibly the album of the year.
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Oct 30, 2025Von Hauswolff sings on Stardust, “in search of something bigger.” In the strange, unique, expansive, impassioned and experimental take on pop presented on Iconoclasts, she seems to have found it.
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Oct 30, 2025Iconoclasts is pretty much a complete 180 from any of Anna's previous output. That may scare some long time fans, but let this fellow Anna lover ease your mind because this album is pure bliss.
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Dec 16, 2025In breaking the tides of what was once familiar, Anna Von Hausswolff revels in the abundance that she fully embraces.
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Nov 7, 2025It is intelligent, thrilling, unique, and endlessly replayable—challenging, yes, but always worth the effort. .... This is her Hounds of Love, her Brat. Yes, it’s that good.
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Oct 31, 2025Most longtime fans will be astonished by von Hausswolff's masterful developmental achievement, as well as the emotional and spiritual power, poetics, and musicality of Iconoclasts. For newcomers, this album presents a near perfect, accessible entry into her recordings.
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Oct 30, 2025What is disarming about ‘ICONOCLASTS’ then is this level of earnestness, von Hausswolff’s cutting self-exploration. Here, she doesn’t hide behind imposing aural architecture or bookish mythology (though, there’s still plenty of both). Instead, she wrestles with loss, faith, and love – mature, deeply universal themes that her earlier oeuvre sometimes obscured.
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Nov 4, 2025She captures the catharsis of having nothing left to lose, the nervous thrill of starting over.
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The WireDec 16, 2025Iconoclasts finds von Hausswolff at her most unabashedly accessible and soulful. [Jan/Feb 2026, p.86]
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MojoOct 30, 2025Iconoclasts is its own untamable beast. Adventurous sonically, dynamically rich, it feels daunting, deep as the Mariana Trench. [Dec 2025, p.81]
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Oct 30, 2025This is a richly textured work that allows von Hausswolff’s hypnotic and inventive melodies to truly shine.
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Nov 5, 2025Von Hausswolff and her ensemble are patient with these songs. They linger over them, giving them time and space to develop, even when they’re nearly at the boiling point.
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UncutNov 10, 2025Her most wide-ranging LP, Iconoclasts is also her most unwieldy, but she finds no small catharsis in letting the music overwhelm. [Review of the Year 2025, p.29]
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