Hmm. Remix perhaps? Or something from here?
http://www.hvarf-heim.com/
oh, xpost. ace! Thanks. :)
― JimD, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
so? even if it were true.
so nothing. just making an observation, wasn't a comment on their music.
― tissp, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
phew. :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Post-release blues? (taking a break, may quit or not, don't know yet)
http://www.vanityfair.de/articles/kultur/sigur-rA-s/2007/10/31/04288/ (in German)
― StanM, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
No link to this more than embarrassing NPR interview yet? It confirmed all the prejudices I ever had about them and their music. If it was a joke it wasn't very funny. They seem to be even more serious/sad than their music.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't see how remaining obtuse and quiet in a boring interview in a language that isn't your native tongue confirms more about their music than it does about your "prejudices." I think it's hilarious.
They're able to create a unique aesthetic with conventional instrumentation, and they usually have great melodies. It's just easy to take shots at them because they're not screaming like idiots over badly played punk guitars and sixteenth note hi-hat rhythms.
― plastic tipped cigar, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
boy you sure just zinged all of ILM
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ban everyone except plastic tipped cigar.
― StanM, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, I was just being pretentious enough to further allow people to judge them on anything but their music. They're readily emotional and some of their songs would kind of sound at home in an AT&T commercial, so naturally a certain crowd of people have a knee-jerk response towards them (for instance, the Enya comparison is off base to anyone with ears). Obviously, my namesake confirms that I also enjoy people screaming like idiots over badly played guitars.
― plastic tipped cigar, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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^^ Except for one condition: leave Geir Hongro unbanned. Then we'll have the ultimate ILM cockfite!
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
They do put on a great live show. More than once I have seen people cry at their gigs.
I like Ágætis byrjun, ( ), and Takk... and I don't really see much of a quality difference between them. Also, I don't find them all that on the fringe probably because it is very pretty music and no matter what other whack stuff is happening -bow strummed guitary, made up words, etc, everyone can connect to very pretty music.
― Popture, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Zactly.
― Lostandfound, Friday, 2 November 2007 06:27 (sixteen years ago) link
More than once I have seen people cry at their gigs.
Dude I've seen people cry at a Blink-182 gig. So what?
― stephen, Friday, 2 November 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
And I have seen people cry at New Kids On The Block gigs. On TV anyway. ;)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 2 November 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice recovery.
― aldo, Friday, 2 November 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone see Heima yet? It's just glorious.
― StanM, Monday, 19 November 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
:-(
Won't bother anyone with the new album info then, sigh ("you sigh" ;-) )
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, come on...new single is fuckin' great. sounds like a mixture of animal collective and peter gabriel. the video is full of naked people running in a forest. and the album is produced by flood. how can anyone not be excited about this?
seems like all ilm wants nowadays is a dfa beat to shake their asses to.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
tell me about this new album, these dudes are all right.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this new song is the first i've ever heard by them and it's incredible
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
More info on the new album at http://sigurros.com/fifth-album.asp and free download of the first track at http://sigurros.com/dvd3.asp
Also, there's an album special at the http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk with more to come.
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:02 (fifteen years ago) link
more flood, less sigur ros
― Michael Servetus, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I loved Agaetis Byjrun (sic) when it came out; quickly getting into Cocteau Twins and Talk Talk made it seem a lot less impressive. The {} album left me a big 'meh', but I quite liked Takk initially. Any antipathy from me towards them probably comes from seeing them live in 2000 or maybe early 2001 at Shepherd's Bush Empire; they played mainly from a soundtrack thing they'd done, and I just wasn't feeling it. We left halfway, wet to Walkabout, and watched Aussies bottle fight. Plus the ubiquity of that tune on BBC nature documentary trailers has left it slightly over familiar.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Or; I thought Vidrar Vel Til Loftarosa was AMAZING until I heard Bloodrush by Bark Psychosis and realised that the EXACT SAME SONG with the EXACT SAME BASS SOUND THAT I LOVED had been done 8 or 9 years prior.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't mind the influences as long as the end result works, and to me, it does. Don't like that Odin's Raven Magic thing you saw either, so fair enough.
Oh, and I don't like Agaetis Byrjun that much anymore, my favourite by far is ( )
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not that I mind the influences - I love them - I just... it's not Sigur Ros's fault, but so many people I know were full of praise for their originality and otherworldliness, and then you realise... not original at all, and go back to source and stay there. It's the music snob way!
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the brevity of their acoustic performances in Heima is what got me back into them after feeling a little battered by the BBC or whoever's overuse of those songs from Takk.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The new song might as well BE Animal Collective. The only problem is that Animal Collective sucks balls now and Sigur Ros is ripping off their newer stuff.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm excited for the new album if only because, based on this track, it's gonna be different. I loved AB when it came out and have loyally purchased everything else (well, not Heima), but the epic/ambient thing was getting pretty damn tired by Takk. It sounds like they are trying to reinvent themselves with this new track, which they sorely need to do.
― pgwp, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
This ^^^
― stephen, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmmm Nick, I find that surprising. Cocteau Twins and Talk Talk aside, can't you appreciate the fact that Agaetis Byrjun *sounds* excellent? And I mean, really sounds incredible. To me it's skill lies in its use of space, not so much that they use it all that well, but they certainly give off the illusion that they're recording in outer space, or the bottom of the ocean, or some other far-fetched geographic or universal location. Isn't that why there's some weird alien-angel fetus on the cover? Isn't that part of its mystery?
Also, I remember hearing lots of Radiohead comparisons, and they sound nothing like Radiohead.
― talrose, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Nick, Agaetis Byrjun would be pretty excellent on those chest-high speakers you got. Loud. In the dark. With the drugs.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Sigur Ros + drugs of any sort = laughable
― stephen, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
People snarkily making jokes about taking drugs to music = predictable.
― talrose, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Why would you assume I was making a joke at all? Much less a snarky one? I like the band, ok, they're often lovely, and yes, I do indeed believe, in all sincerity, that mild to mid-grade hallucinogens would perfectly suit a dedicated listening.
Not that I have tried it. I'm more of an uppers/free-jazz guy lately.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I know, people altering their consciousness and listening to music, GAWD it's so passe.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't directed at you, kenan.
― talrose, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
super earnest grocery store music for the future. no edge whatsoever. horrible music to take drugs to i'd think. maybe wine and vico would work. something about icelandic artists i hate.
― rockapads, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
horrible music to take drugs to i'd think.
this is OTM; i wasn't talking about taking drugs to music in general, as talrose suggests, just that Sigur Ros in particular are not at all suited for this. (and i think talrose knows this, he's just being snooty)
― stephen, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't. But I appreciate the rebuttal.
― talrose, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe wine and vico would work.
Nah, "Future Days" is my go-to wine and vico album. Slot's been taken. :)
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
excellent choice. mine is Biosphere's Dropsonde.
― rockapads, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
did sigur ros become the standard bbc documentary soundtrack band before or after "the life aquatic"?
i thought Staralfur fit that one scene perfectly. you could almost believe it was a real shark.
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll have to go back to it. Thing is, I only ever liked three tunes - the single, it's b-side (Vidrar Vel Til Loftarosa, as mentioned) and Olsen Olsen, all of which (Olsen Olsen in particular) I remember sounding awesome. I've not listened to it in years, though. I'll try and revisit this weekend.
I've barely touched any drugs whatsoever in 8 years.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 30 May 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Vi&rar Vel Til Loftirasa is by FAR my favourite Sigur Ros song. This thread in fact inspired me to make it my first post-exam-laptop-retrieval spin. Most of their other efforts don't cut it in comparison.
― Just got offed, Friday, 30 May 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost Olsen Olsen is a fine song indeed, particularly the lovely version on the film, with the strings and brass band going at it full tilt.
― MaresNest, Friday, 30 May 2008 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, not that I'm especially keen on thread derailments but a Cardiacs handle? Colour me impressed.
Olsen Olsen is good, definitely my second-fave on the album (although behind a couple of () tracks in the great holistic ranking). The riff is just a tad simple for my tastes, if anything.
― Just got offed, Friday, 30 May 2008 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Well thats kind of been the Sigur Ros template, cycle around two or three nice sounding major or minor 7th chords for 8 mins with maybe a 'chorus' change of chord/pace/texture and hey presto...
I know that's a little harsh but it did occur an awful lot.
― MaresNest, Friday, 30 May 2008 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
30-second clips
― StanM, Sunday, 1 June 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link