Gregor Samsa
Rest

All Music Guide - The resultant sense of suspension in space -- results in a rich listen that gets more powerful as it goes, and by the time of the combination of piano, strings and theremin which closes "Pseudonyms" helps to make the group's work be its own thing rather than something easily aligned to one style or another. A rare thing still, it seems.

CMJ - it could score the wanderings of those lost unto themselves in the post-midnight hours... the boundless space-rock creeps through dreamy soundscapes, casting a somber shadow of twinkling bells. The music is intricate an ornate, the lyrics emotive, the vocals ghostly.

Forkcast - The song's central, stately piano is shown in loving detail in the video, along with other pieces of the orchestration. But we also see a cardboard box floating in shimmering water, a bit of crumpled paper-- plastic?-- billowing in the wind, and the pipes of a radiator in some empty apartment. The devil damns the narrator of "Jeroen Van Aken" no matter what he or she does, but this video offers a concise introduction to the song's slow-building tranquility.

Playback STL - The slow-rolling melodies for which the septuplet is known have been perfected on Rest... patient, serious, beautiful and layered. In other words, it's the perfect rainy day record. A

Smother - Perhaps one of the most memorable indie pop bands out there, Gregor Samsa composes mini-symphonies on their aptly titled third full-length “Rest”... The nine opuses that are as poignant and hauntingly original as anything Sigur Ros has done to date...

Spin - Buzzcatcher - emotional post-rock punches in hushed vocals and swelling instrumentation.

Textura - From its gamelan-flavoured opener (“The Adolescent”) to beatific lullaby closer (“Du Meine Leise”), Rest's poised set-pieces impress with graceful, classically-tinged restraint.

Treblezine - Rest is an album for the ages, one that I imagine could be played ten to a hundred years from now and still retain its beauty and power.