Big Anonymous

Big Anonymous is a 2024 studio album by Swedish indie rock musical act El Perro del Mar.

[2] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Fred Thomas writing that "the sadness that has long underscored Swedish singer/songwriter Sarah Assbring's work as El Perro del Mar becomes the predominant force" on this album "with spacious and dismal arrangements serving as a stage for observations on grief and existential dread".

[4] Online retailer Bandcamp chose this for Album of the Day and critic Elle Carroll Kieron stated that "Assbring contemplates death and loss and, in doing so, traces the ways language and music ultimately falter before the immensity of both" and that "one senses that these ten songs were the only acceptable substitute Assbring could countenance for the silence within".

[5] Writing for The Line of Best Fit, Michael Hoffman gave this work a 9 out of 10, comparing this to 2006's From the Valley to the Stars, but with this being "bigger, bolder, and darker than its predecessor" , with "delicate vocals [that] float above and between ghostly ambience, white noise, reverbed choral backing, expansive orchestral string arrangements, and bright synths that cut like daggers through the darkness of warped, industrial beats".

[6] Tyler of Mojo rated this album a 4 out of 5 stars, opining that "musically, the spectral sound lies between Fever Ray at their least forbidding and the shadows cast by David Lynch soundtracks".