Why the hate for Sigur Ros?

if you make half of takk all of takk, cad more or less otm

Mares -- ohhhhhkay, duh! just my own paranoia about sounding naive. haven't talked much about music in a while.

am ten years familiar with ILM, Bee. it has sometimes amazed me, yes. :)

(miss you too stinku!)

That album cover is totally frightening, it's like something you'd expect from Billy Corgan. I think I'm over it now and I'm ready to give this album a chance. Thanks for the thread revival Kim!

I really really really don't understand people who were floored by "Agetis Byrjun" and then claimed to have stopped listening to Sigur Ros because they got boring. "Agetis Byrjun" is by far their most boring, least focused, most meandering album.

^ OTFM

you might have a harder time getting over it then Barry because it's not just the album cover. Jonsi seems to be into this whole woodsy birdman sprite "look" (check out some live performances and the vid for Go Do). it's like he's channeling the spirit of Jon Anderson circa Brother of Mine or Gowan's Strange Animal phase. yet, still i like it.

agaetis byrjun contains their only truly brilliant song though (Nice Weather For Airstrikes)

I'm sorry, I can't do any more than 20 minutes, I'm back to Full On Mask Hysteria on Spotify.

Somewhere, my dirty dronerock past is weeping into its oscillator banks.

Gowan's Strange Animal phase

I was cringing and having serious second thoughts until I read this, now I'm stoked to hear it again!

The acoustic song on the last Sigur Ros album was easily the worst thing on the record though.

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/?utm_source=sr1108&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inni

http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SIGUR-ROS-INNI.jpg

Icelandic post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós are releasing a concert film and double live album called Inni soon, and you can download a piece of the magic even if you don’t want to drop $79 on a deluxe package that includes a piece of band member clothing (for real!).

I would be interested in a Lou Reed/Sigur Ros collab as long as Lou's the only one allowed to sing

ok but Reed has to sing in hopelandish.

I went to see the concert film at the cinema on Friday night and, though I don't pay much attention to Sigur Ros these days, I loved the film.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Sigur_Ros_-_Valtari.jpg

Valtari (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈval̥tarɪ], Steamroller) is the sixth full-length studio album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, to be released on May 28, 2012.

Track listing:
1. "Ég Anda" 6:15
2. "Ekki Múkk

" 7:45
3. "Varúð

" 6:37
4. "Rembihnútur" 5:05
5. "Dauðalogn" 6:37
6. "Varðeldur" 6:08
7. "Valtari" 8:19
8. "Fjögur Píanó"

single is a bit long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INWZy3-Vw80

so i like this song alright, it is just too long for a single and really go nowhere. i have hopes for the album however.

Man, haters (or anybody left that's interested enough) are going to have a field day.
The entire record sounds like the keyboard players dog died so he listened to Arvo Pärt for a week straight then wrote the album while the rest of the band were on holiday.

Who's that rapper on track 4 ?

Really looking forward to this.

Ding dong.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/shia-labeouf-naked-sigur-ros-video-fjogur-piano.html

Link SFW -- the video in it isn't.

Between this and working w Nick Cave, Shia Labeouf's "arty" period is going to be amazing.

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jesus christ man is this like.. how did we even... like fuckin 500 years ago people were making beautiful art/... fuckin leonardo da vinci was doing amazing things... and now some lesbian in a jumpsuit is doing slow motion footage of naked sam witwicky murdering a babe while the sound of a slow motion plane crash goes on

I'm not sure what's worse; his penis, his ponytail, or his sad eyes.

^^^ a sentence I never expected to read

Popped up on blog view, mistook it for the cheesecake thread and was about to complain "why are you being so MEAN about Thom Yorke?"

Um never mind then.

I like that this thread now has a definitive answer to the question posed.

haha I was thinking that too

Why the hate for Sigor Ros? Shia Labeouf's ponytailed penis.

just saw shia's la boeuf ... God, these Icelandic motherfuckers DEFY parody,

Alack:

"Sigur Rós would like to apologise to anyone disappointed not to see the band's Bestival performance live online last night. Early in the day a decision had been made to delay broadcast till after the show to give the band a chance to review the footage ahead of webcast, since they were dismayed that their guaranteed 'darkness' slot had been pushed into daylight by the expansive demands of the headliner.

"The band's only UK show of the year, this would-be highlight of the 2012 calendar, would have to be conducted without proper lights or visuals. Sadly then, a perfect storm of production issues and technical problems conspired to mean that the band went on to have a thoroughly miserable experience onstage too. And to spare everyone’s blushes a decision was made to draw a discrete veil over proceedings."

All of which is their way of saying "We wish we didn't have to have photos like this taken of us in broad daylight oh god please delete":

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/2012BestivalSigurRosDB100912.jpg

they lost a member and got heavier and i find myself liking the new song, which would make it the first thing i've enjoyed from them in ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6zXSdYXm8

here's the artwork for the new album, kveikur

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/kveikur.jpg

Got a friend's ticket to their show at MSG last night, a more muscular performance than expected. Between that and this single, genuinely looking forward to this album.

They played the title track on Jimmy Fallon the other night and it's pretty intense, too.

New album out today.

Have the vinyl on reserve for pick up on Wednesday. Oh yes, it will be a good day.

album is great

Not really doing it for me.

it's a neat album, but i think valtari was a bit better.

i liked the riceboysleepiness of valtari.

the opening track on this one kind of announces itself and then ... the album goes nowhere.

Loved Valtari .. but the Valtari Film Experiment did nothing for me whatsoever - actually, it was at risk of making Valtari slightly less good.

Surprised to hear Sigur Ros in a cream cheese advert ...

Having completed a Gus Gus best of, now making a CDR80 of Sigur Ros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMbv3Lm8BCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qVtQItpmUg

^ Just found while pottering on the internet. Surprised I hadn't heard before.

http://fieldrecording.net/2014/08/06/sound-jokulsarlon-1/

Still my favourite initial exchange of any thread, anyways, much expanded ágætis byrjun coming soon -

"announcing the expanded limited edition boxset of ágætis byrjun

to mark its 16th birthday, a definitive, much expanded edition of ágætis byrjun is in the works for early summer. the deluxe boxset edition will feature previously unheard studio recordings and rare live versions from this pivotal period in the band's development, as well as a welter of photographic and documentary material from their personal archives and plenty more besides. it will be a beautiful thing to behold, and the last word in completist editions of sigur rós catalogue releases.

while we are still finalising design and content - and will share with you as soon as it's fixed - we wanted you to know about this now [as well as other expanded editions of von and ( )], since the band's first three albums have all just become available on re-mastered, heavyweight vinyl for the first time in ages. go either look for the vinyl reissues now, or hang on for something grander still."

wax cylinder?

man, i remember when sigur ros were (in my mind) the most exciting band in the world. i had to order the ny batteri EP from my local indie and i devoured ágætis byrjun when it came out. but never has my interest in a band waned so quickly than after that. but those records were GOOD and I could be tempted to return to them. Think I still have Ny Batteri and ágætis byrjun in their OG cardboard sleeves. Wonder if they're worth anything at all.