On Places Of Worship, Arve Henriksen "inhabits the space between these two worlds, in a series of tone poems and mood pieces located around religious buildings and ruins. These still, silent quarters and abandoned houses of the holy can be where we experience our deepest moments of reflection, silence and occasionally fear. Making the aura of these places audible, Henriksen’s haunted horn and idiosyncratic treble vocals carry an air of treading on forbidden territory, stirring up the dust of forgotten spirits."
"As their Grammys-cabinet shows, Arcade Fire are the reigning monarchs of Big Music. Yet the Canadians’ fourth album achieves the seemingly impossible: making their massive music even massiver. The juggernauting anthemia that has become their signature is upscaled for ‘Reflektor’, a wider-than-widescreen, 70-minute, two-disc odyssey.
The need for a big canvas lies within the subject matter. ‘Reflektor’ is about opposites and conflicts: Celebrity vs. anonymity. Memory vs. the moment. Mortality vs. immortality. And while the themes are enough for an A-Level project, the music is a whole syllabus of styles." (The Fly)
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Arve Henriksen - Ascent.
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