With their fifth full-length album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translated as With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), Sigur Rós have taken the poppy, sunshiny leanings of their previous album a step further into the light. The band has always been known for otherworldly soundscapes, and while there is enough of that here to keep the faithful happy, the band also writes straightforward, three-minute pop songs like the incredible catchy, sticky-sweet duo ("Gobbldigook," "Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur") that kick the album off like the first rays of the morning sun blazing through your bedroom window. That feeling continues on through the album as both the joyously soaring vocals and the buoyant melodies keep things floating happily on air. The arrangement of sound is quite different from previous albums, too. In the past their sound was characterized by a great wash of instruments merging together into great, gently heaving walls and waves of sound; on this album, for the most part, you can pick out individual instruments whether it's the acoustic guitar that underpins many of the songs (and provides the main backing on the intimate and quite lovely, and quite un-Sigur Rós-like, "Illgresi") or the lone piano that begins "Ára Bátur" (which does expand out into an epic undertaking with over 90 people including the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir eventually playing on the track). Despite the few tracks that reach for the heavens, for the first time the band sounds grounded and stripped down. Songs like "Festival," with its pounding bassline and charging drums, and the melancholy album closer, "All Alright," which is based on a lonely piano figure (and features lyrics sung in English for the first time in the group's history), are firmly tethered to earth and shorn of excess artifice. In the past it was easy to be impressed with the sound of Sigur Rós, to be carried away by the grandeur of the band and be hit hard by the titanic emotions. On Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust you can really hear the human hearts behind the wall of sound, and while the emotional impact is on a smaller scale, somehow it is even more affecting.
On occasion I allow my personal life to bleed over and contaminate the lovely and witty pages of TWF. It doesn't happen all that often, but I do feel as the sole author, writer, and creative personality behind this blog that I can afford myself the luxury to pretty much say whatever the heck I want. As some of you may remember, and as a scant few of you worried, I talked about landing a job i...
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Sigur Rós make landscape music. It's kinetic, progressive, scenic, responsive, complimentary. Subtle, yet emotive and powerful, the Icelandic group's fifth album, med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (which translates to "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly"), is not drastically different from Sigur Rós's previous work. Considering the quality of those other four meticulously-crafted albu.
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not the band, but today a market busker was playing "shout" across the street from my stand. i've never heard any sort of acoustic attempt of tears for fears...i think we should let it stay new wave.it's been awhile since i've come up with any sort of decent post. i've had posts in my head, they have just never had a chance to make it to the interweb.i could write about the vivid and stellar se...
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For those of you wondering where Sigur Ros filmed the video for "Gobbldigook," the first single off their fifth studio album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, where everyone runs around naked in an undisclosed enchanted forest looking like they are praising the gods of fire...I've got your answer.The video was taped in "Caumsett State Historic Park":http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.
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Sigur Ros are streaming their entire new unpronounceable-to-the-un-Icelandic-eye album today on their website. (remember the days when they named them something everyone could pronounce like Takk...?)To listen to Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (see what I mean about the title) "click here": http://www.sigurros.com/main/streaming.asp The album can also be streamed via the band's super wi
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You still can't understand what Sigur Ros are singing in their native Icelandic in the band's latest single "Gobbledigook," but it sure does echo the title of the album Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaus which translates into "with a buzz in our ear we play endlessly."The video takes the bands peaceful buzz to a mystic forest where people run free wearing nothing...kinda like in the cavemen d
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While Iceland is suffering its own financial crisis, the country's own Sigur Ros are trying to restore some calm with their official video for the Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust track "Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur (Within Me a Lunatic Sings.)" Perhaps the band's feeling the country's financial woes, because instead of getting buck naked and running around a New York State Park with a hand.
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We were all excited to hear Ryan McGinley sun-blessed nude images would be used in Sigur Ros's new album cover. But I didn't know such aesthetics would transcend to their music videos tho.However- the London Telegraph offered an awesome preview of Sigur Ros' new single (name I can't pronounce). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/telegraphtv/tvplayer/?ID=Arts&bcpid=1358314062&bclid=1422258516&...
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At first I thought it was somethign wrong with my computer, but seems the new Sigur Ros video for the Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust track "Við spilum endalaust" isn't striving for perfection. Think of it as finding beauty in the abstract. The distorted video traces the band on the road.
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MY SIGUR ROS TICKET! WEEEEE WOOPIE CAMANAW YEEAHAAA. oct 5 baaaby. its gonna be sick.Things to do before i die:Learn the rubiks cubeCatch a fly with chopsticksMake and distribute "Dr. Breen's Private Reserve"Find Waldo See Sigur Ros live^^oooo so close they will be playin at benaroya hall. im looking forward to the musical onslaught that will fill my ears. btw, i think 'inni mer syngur vitley...
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More beautiful and ethereal sound from Iceland...and I can even pronounce the name of this song...the album? Not so much
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Sigur Rós make landscape music. It's kinetic, progressive, scenic, responsive, complimentary. Subtle, yet emotive and powerful, the Icelandic group's fifth album, med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (which translates to "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly"), is not drastically different from Sigur Rós's previous work. Considering the quality of those other four meticulously-crafted albu.
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for all the details, you should first read sam's blog! if you haven't already.i have to preface saying that the excitement for this particular event has been building up ever since last summer when i purchased the ticket. it escalated to a ridiculous amount when i received a call at 6:50 pm on Saturday night when my friend called from work..."Guess who just walked into Local Color"...yes, Jonsi...
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not the band, but today a market busker was playing "shout" across the street from my stand. i've never heard any sort of acoustic attempt of tears for fears...i think we should let it stay new wave.it's been awhile since i've come up with any sort of decent post. i've had posts in my head, they have just never had a chance to make it to the interweb.i could write about the vivid and stellar se...
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my birthday was wonderful and gorgeous. woke up at 430 to catch this:[birthday sunrise from kerry park...]walked around the sculpture park before work:[nothing like a spinning ambersand in the morning][lovely city]and caught the sunset from the fremont bridge...plus much, much more.and now one week until summer break! which, besides the fact that i won't be as insanely busy, i'm not all that lo...
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Some kind soul ripped this from the Radio 1 show last night. So it's not the best quality but still sounds amazing. All 9 minutes 24 seconds of it. Love the whistling at the end!
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Track 5, Festival from the upcoming Sigur Rós album will be played on Colin Murray's Radio 1 show tonight (3rd of June) in the UK from 10pm GMT and the show can be streamed online for those in other countries at:www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1.shtmlThe track is over 9 minutes long, Colin better not cut it short! He is a big Sigur fan though so I thi..
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The first track, Gobbledigook, from the new Sigur Rós album Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust has been released as a free download (320kbps) from sigurros.com as mentioned previously today in my last post.I'm waiting patiently to hear it on Zane Lowe's show on the radio before I listen to the mp3 (hurry up and PLAY IT, Zane!), but I'll post the track here for you lot. Enjoy! Let me know wh
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| 1 Gobbledigook |
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| 2 Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur |
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| 3 Góđan Daginn |
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| 4 Viđ Spilum Endalaust |
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| 5 Festival |
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| 6 Međ Suđ Í Eyrum |
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| 7 Ára Bátur |
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| 8 Illgresi |
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| 9 Fljótavík |
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| 10 Straumnes |
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| 11 All Alright |
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