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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Swedish experimental composer Anna von Hausswolff features guest appearances by Ethel Cain, Iggy Pop and Maria von Hausswolff.
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- Record Label: Year0001
- Genre(s): Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nov 4, 2025She captures the catharsis of having nothing left to lose, the nervous thrill of starting over.
- The WireDec 16, 2025Iconoclasts finds von Hausswolff at her most unabashedly accessible and soulful. [Jan/Feb 2026, p.86]
- 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]
