To all intents and purposes, Sigur Ros have been a middle-aged trance act from the beginning…

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Iain Mew: Back when we did “When Clocks Takes Over” and I said “It’s hard to think of many worse hooks to not add anything of interest to”, IT WAS NOT MEANT AS A CHALLENGE.
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Alfred Soto: At the back of my head, I heard distant feet: the Olympics and Coldplay to a disco beat.
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Sophie Green: I originally wanted to review this with one single word: “No.” But on reflection, that would have been merely an attempt to portray something guttural and heartfelt in a shallow and asinine manner – not too dissimilar to this Chicane “reworking”. But this track does not work: if it is meant to be a pumping Ibiza track, why has it done away with all of the euphoria and immediacy of the original? If this wants to be something intelligent and beautiful, as the Guardian advert ripoff of a music video wants to imply, then why is everything done in the musical equivalent of 2D?
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Chuck Eddy: onagoodday627 (5 hours ago) Someone born in the late 80s or 90s can’t really comprehend the quality of Chicane or this track. If you have lived through the entire growth of trance from day one then you will truly appreciate it.
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Alex Ostroff: The original is gorgeous, and Chicane’s total mastery of build and release turns this into everything I like about trance. No lyrics, no overpowering vocals, no final momentous climax. Just a gentle and perpetually cresting wave of beauty.
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Martin Skidmore: He’s a slick and glossy producer, and there are some attractive swooshes on this, but it doesn’t have quite the upliftingly ecstatic moments or sweep to give him another huge house anthem, I don’t think.
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Michaelangelo Matos: Sounds like an intro to something that never quite begins. I know people say this about dance tracks all the time, but this three-minute edit really sounds that way.
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Anthony Miccio: Seeing as how I’m not looking for inoffensive techno muzak to soundtrack my on-flight instructional video, this track has no use for me whatsoever.
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Richard Swales: When I saw the title I thought, “Oh no, they haven’t,” then 20 seconds in I was thinking, “Oh no, they have and I hate it,” and then at the end I was thinking, “Wow, that actually kind of worked.” Then I listened to it again and quite enjoyed it. Still, they shouldn’t have.
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Additional Scores

Andrew Brennan: [7]
Hillary Brown: [5]