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| Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 70 reviews)
Sales Rank: 190
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 65 more reviews...
 Spectacular, unusual, affecting music December 26, 2008
If you have heard of Sigur Ros, do yourself a favour and listen to them and start with this album. If you have heard of them and don't like them, you are an idiot or lying. This music begs to be at the very least appreciated a great deal. For me it is more, the music carries you along and makes you feel a certain way that you can't really identify. This is thier best, most accessible release yet and look forward to more.
Beautiful December 26, 2008
Possibly the greatest album of this millennium. Sigur Ros continues to reinvent themselves and release music so beautiful it is 'ethereal' as they have often been pegged. There is no other band (and will be no other band) like this ever.
Music on another Level December 19, 2008
You have to hear this album to believe it. Sigur Ros gets better and better every time out. The emotional high they create is more lasting than any music out there today. They are the most under appreciated band of our time. The average person on the street wouldn't know who they are. Hopefully with this album, that will start to change.
 Bland is an understatement December 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album sure starts well. Gobbledegook and track two (that's how much I dislike this album) were good songs. Unfortunately Rasputin's previewer only let me listen two the first three tracks so I got suckered into buying it. Every song after track two is the same song, over and over with glacial melodies, incredibly slow tempo, etc. etc. I've heard more emotionally stirring muzak. Do not buy this album thinking it is a pop record. Do not buy it thinking that it is interesting music. Buy it only if you are out of Enya albums to buy and you want Enya without hooks.
 Deliciously pop. November 28, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date.
A happy album from Sigur Ros sounds like an unlikely concept.
The band specialise in music that is about as sunny as an Arctic winter - vast tundras of sound, dark with melancholy and loneliness. So their fifth album comes as a surprise.
The brisk opener, "Gobbledigook", all jumped-up drums and manic vocals, sets the tone: its poppy energy crackles on through much of this collection.
But then along comes a song that changes everything. From innocuous beginnings - Jonsi Birgisson's fragile voice, a lone piano - "Ara Batur" swells into an epic, swallowing a whole choir and the London Sinfonietta.
It is so ambitious and successful a piece of music that it threatens to overwhelm the surrounding tracks, making what came before seem frivolous and what follows, almost inconsequential.
No matter: for this one uplifting, goosebump-raising moment, it is worth buying the whole album.
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