"The main virtue of Sonar is that it creates a breath of fresh air everywhere it goes."
(El País – Spain)
"Sonar once again shows the risk of highlighting the state of the cutting edge of music, whatever it is and wherever it comes from."
(El Periódico – Spain)
"Sonar has become consolidated as one of the strong points of the world's music events (…) it makes the city into the true capital of music and an unmissable date for everyone who wants to be up to date."
(La Vanguardia – Spain)
"Sonar Festival is one of those all too rare events where we really do get the chance to hear, record and broadcast some new and truly amazing music from across the globe."
(BBC Radio 1 – UK)
"Sonar festival was and enlightening visual experience, which offered a huge variety of some of the best examples of digital art creation. It is a proof that Sonar –as an organization concerned with cutting edge art, music and technology– has firmly cemented its reputation as one of the largest and most progressive festival of its kind, while not compromising on innovation or experimentation."
(Shift – Japan)
"Sonar festival of ‘advanced music and multimedia art’ is built on a virtually faultless formula of sunny, never ending days and classy network of slickly run venues, snugly housed within Barcelona historic and stylish landscape. It sets a standard that Sonar’s UK peers find near impossible to follow."
(The Guardian online – UK)
"There is no doubt that Sonar is one of the most successful festivals out there."
(The Wire – UK)