Sigur Ros are back with another album. Rather splendid packaging
it comes in too with a cut out plastic thingy over the jewel case. Not
seen the vinyl yet but that's cos it's not ready. Gonna be at least another
week or 2 as there has been problems with the sleeve already. Anyway there's
2 schools of thought re Sigur Ros that I can see. One is that you
think they're musical saviours making beautiful, interesting and emotive
music. The other is that they make long drawn out pretentious arty pompous
albums. I sit firmly in the middle (as I often do) as I like them but
think they have a tendency to wallow somewhere around their arse area.
If you liked the last album you'll love this. The songs are longer (none
of them have titles and the album is officially known as brackets as far
as I'm concerned), even more emotive and it reminds me a lot of Radiohead
with Kevin the singer sounding more like Thomas Yorke than
he has done before. This is good album and I wouldn't expect any less.
The band are going from strength to strength and this could be the one
that puts 'em on a par with Godspeed (sizewise that is, not in
quantity of members......) and makes 'em all massive like. We'll wait
and see......
Love this record? Hate it? Tell us.
What their label says...
· Sigur Ros are huge, and have a massive dedicated following of fans who will love to get their hands on this special edition heavyweight vinyl. · ‘Von’ and ‘Agaetis Bryjun’, Sigur Ros’s other FatCat releases, are also being released on 180g DMM vinyl. · Sigur Ros have recently released a new album and are constantly in the major press and on national radio. · Press for Sigur Ros at the time was exceptional: “Sigur Ros are an emotionally intense, idiosyncratic and undeniably towering talent” - Time Out; “The last great band of the twentieth century” - The Face; “It doesn't get much more sublime than this” - CMJ; “Sigur Ros effortlessly make music that is massive, glacial, and sparse. They are Hidden People. Children will be conceived, wrists will be slashed, scars will be healed, and tears will be wrenched by this group. They are the first vital band of the 21st Century” – Pitchfork; “Somewhere between Spiritualized, a traditional madrigal group and Slowdive with Liz Fraser on vocals, this is exactly as you’d hope a band from just beneath the Arctic Circle would sound like” – NME; “Resident in the icelandic charts for over a year now, this record has been as eagerly awaited by cognoscenti as anything in years. the reason, largely, is 1999's ‘svefn-g-englar’; a track of awesome, austere beauty moving at glacial speed which could be described, without a whiff of hyperbole, as the last great record of the last millennium. 4/5” – Q.
