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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 51 reviews)
Sales Rank: 86
Category: Music
Artist: Sigur Ros
Publisher: XL Recordings
Studio: XL Recordings
Manufacturer: XL Recordings
Label: XL Recordings
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40364
UPC: 634904036423
EAN: 0634904036423
ASIN: B001ACY8D2
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Gobbledigook | | • | InnA mAr syngur vitleysingur | | • | GAdan daginn | | • | Vid spilum endalaust | | • | Festival | | • | Med sud A eyrum | | • | Ara bAtur | | • | Allgresi | | • | FljAtavAk | | • | Straumnes | | • | All Alright |
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Product Description
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Ros
adopted a looser approach in creating their fifth album Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.
The album consequently is fresher and more human than anything they ve previously
recorded.
Rough edges, cracked notes, and the sound of fingers on strings are audible resulting in tracks
(e.g. Illgresi ) that prove to be the band's sparsest and most affecting work to date. Worry not
though, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ensuring Sigur Ros
commitment to challenging sonic limitations.
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is truly a groundbreaking album for Sigur Ros. It s the
first time they ve attempted to write, record, mix, release and support (by touring) an album in
the same year. Notoriously known for their laborious writing/recording style and their Icelandic
roots, Sigur Ros decided to record an album outside of Iceland for the first time. Recording,
mixing and mastering sessions took place in such un-Reykjavik cities as New York (Sear
Sound and Sterling Sound), London (Abbey Road and Assault & Battery) and Havana. The
result is pretty much their leave home album, the anti-Heima.
The opening track, Gobbledigook , is a manifesto setter with its shifting/no time signature. On
the last track, All Alright , Sigur Ros find themselves singing a song solely in English for the
first time. The seventh track, Ara Batur , was performed with a full orchestra and the London
Oratory Boys Choir. This was recorded in one take with no overdubs and the result was 90
people playing at once and just one perfect take. This is their first album working with Flood
(U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and the first since their debut to not be recorded with Ken
Thomas. It was a true co-production, one that found Sigur Ros breaking out of old
molds/habits.
The cover artwork is a photo taken from a flyer for Ryan McGinley s most recent photo
exhibition in NYC, I Know Where the Summer Goes , and the image captures perfectly the
spirit of the album, one of free-spirited happiness and exploration.
The band will be touring the US throughout the fall of 2008 to support Med Sud I Eyrum Vid
Spilum Endalaust.
Amazon.co.uk
Sigur Ros--the sound of snow-capped peaks. Or winged things flocking over vast plains. Or salmon making that final courageous, muscular leap upstream, homeward bound. Ever since the BBC so aptly enlisted the help of the band?s "Hoppipolla" single to theme the groundbreaking natural history series Planet Earth, the ever-ethereal Icelandic band have become somewhat typecast, finding themselves conducting awe across the backdrops of nearly every other programme in that broad genre. And with that came the danger that all which followed would automatically become an instant cliche. And though their last album Takk saw a slowing of their evolution in favour of solidifying the established sound in accessible earfuls, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (which translates as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly") sees enough of a stylistic twist to keep things moving, without undercutting this new approachability. Where previously they sounded untouched by human hands, all alien post-rock abstractions, they now sound much more organic, sometimes literally like men playing instruments in a room. Albeit pensively, and extraordinarily. It is a perky record, attentive and exquisite, familiar but not derivative. The rhythmically adventurous "Gobbledigook" reminds of Brooklyn experimentalists Battles, unplugged, the xylophone heavy "Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur" is this album?s "Hoppipolla" and "Ara Batur" is trembling, lonely and eventually triumphant. "Festival", the album?s centrepiece, melds the old and new Sigur Ros dramatically over nine majestic minutes and must number amongst the best moments of their career. -- James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 En Islandia August 28, 2008
En Xalapa (lugar desde donde se redacta esta publicacion) no ha parado de llover desde hace ya una semana, dia tras dia, y no solo unas gotas, sino hasta que las alcantarillas drenan en sentido retrogrado y las calles forman rios que abordan la banqueta y las viviendas. Hoy amanecio el clima asi, y durante mas de una hora que pase navegando avenidas escuche este GRAN DISCO (Claudio). Este es el quinto album de estudio de la banda Sigur Ros, provenientes de Islandia (donde los criticos dicen que solo hay hielo y Bjoerk). Y no se si fue el clima o mi humor, pero pienso que hay que tener corazon de piedra para no ser tocado por estos sonidos; melodias parsimoniosas, coros angelicales, una guitarra electrica que suspira cada vez que la acaricia el arco de violoncello, y cuando no es asi brilla con stacattos y letras que no entiendo lo que dicen pero que evocan muchas imagenes. Otro comentario que surgio es que es un ambiental tan epico que bien puede ser soundtrack de una pelicula de Narnia -y si me gustan- pero lastima, el soundtrack real es de Regina Spektor.
Quieren una recomendacion? Escuchen el primer track de la placa -Gobbledigook- con audifonos.
 Its a beautiful record, August 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
to put it simply. This is the first of their's I have bought so I was pleasantly surprised it was so good.
The first few songs have a lot of energy and the later songs are very toned down and peaceful, dreamy and in a way very emotional without trying to be.
Its like the best parts of Coldplay and Radiohead in one and better.
Beautiful mainstream music August 16, 2008
Sigur ros is such a great band, and with the new album, they deliver, in a big way.
rock, pop, chill out music, everything is in here.
Thanks Sigur Ros for such a beautiful music.
Awesome August 11, 2008
Simply awesome, more happy songs than a normal Sigur Ros album but still just as mesmorizing.
another masterpiece August 10, 2008
I cannot get enough of Sigur Ros. Every single album since their sophomore effort has been a moody, masterpiece of soundscapes and this one keeps that string going.
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