Why the hate for Sigur Ros?

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.

This remains my favourite thing they ever did. Verges on black metal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTGLiV6QwZA

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.

I loved Ágætis byrjun too. I revisited it recently and still enjoyed it. (), however, is boring in 2015.

yeah everything they did afterwards sounded very boring indeed. tv ident music. or am i just saying that because a tv station in the UK did use one of their songs as an ident? i liked SR when they hinted at folky grimness, but they decided to go down a more ambient/Radiohead-lite path I wasn't mad keen on. 2000 felt like post-rock was going to be the saviour of music music but so few bands managed to follow up on their promises.

Agetis Byrjun is easily their worst album.

( ) has my fave bits on it.

I had the same experience. Absolutely blown away by the Sven-g-Englar and Ny Batteri singles, and I loved the album. I thought it was a refreshing take on the quiet/loud dynamic that Mogwai and Godspeed were doing--it was just more sensuous and less didactic. My love of that record kept me on board for ( ) and Takk, though I never really connected beyond a couple of tracks on that latter album. I never bought another album after that though I paid attention to singles.

Now I'm totally uninterested in new stuff and the idea of going back to those earlier albums feels like a chore, aside from some nostalgia for Sven-g-Englar.

remember REALLY liking (). i still have it but haven't felt a desire to hear it in years. i jumped off the bus after that though.

Absolutely loved Agetis Bryjun and ( ), was pretty meh on Takk, really enjoyed Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, and haven't been too big either way on the ones since.

Ny Batteri and Sven-G-Englar are possibly my two favorite songs by them. I lost track after Takk.... they're kind of a one-trick pony, no? Whichever album you heard first might be your favorite by them, they seem exchangeable. They make a good first impression but as soon as you get to a second album it feels like more of the same. A friend describes them as the AC/DC of post-rock.

the last album was really good and intense and kinda post-hardcorey in a way. haven't really listened to it since it came out though

Some of you that faded away with Takk should really give Með suð... a go, it really is quite an outlier from the rest of their discography. It's pretty lacking in post-rock, the songs are more traditionally formed and have a lot of folk and almost jazz influenced bits. A couple of the songs remind me of Animal Collective too. It doesn't all work, but it worked for me as a way to get interested in them again, since they weren't chasing down the same formula.

Of their relatively recent releases, I love this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DnPtTzUb9s

I really liked Med Sus i Eyrum... and the first Jonsi solo album even more. Lost track after that. I've always liked them most when they played a sort of twisted popmusic. My favorite song on Agætis is Staralfur.

Mind you, I still find it odd to hear them sound-tracking Philadelphia Cream Cheese and (I think, Jonsi solo) HSBC adverts.