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Author : Sigur Rós
Release Date : 20021029
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Are Iceland’s Sigur Rós the saviors of 21st-century rock or true heirs to the silk-robed-and-platform-booted, pompous progressive rock of the '70s? On their third album (first for a major label), they are a little bit of both. The group continues to mix the most interesting aspects of U2 (the anthem), Low (the maximalist slow-mo thing), Radiohead (the utter lack of irony in the quest to make meaningful art for stadium crowds), and My Bloody Valentine (guitar as texture), while not sounding like anyone else on this planet. The average song length on the eight untitled tracks is eight minutes, with cascades of moaning, bowed guitars colliding with low-end keyboards while the lovely, alien-registered vocals of singer Jónsi float on top. Dynamics are employed spectacularly, but half of the album is spooky soundtrack music that never really goes anywhere. However, the actual songs on Two Sausages Kissing (or whatever you want to call it)—the third, sixth, eighth, and especially fourth tracks-—are mind-blowers, spectacularly worth the price of admission. If they just stopped trying to reinvent the wheel all the time, Sigur Rós could really be a band for the ages.
Buyer Reviews :
Forget about the parenthetical title or the lack of song names on the album or that the booklet is blank so that you can go on their website and post your own lyrics and images for the booklet. Just pop it in and listen. As with any Sigur Ros, a 30 second clip is going to be hard to really get any real idea of the song from, but I think even there you can tell that this is amazing music. They have set aside some of the sugary string-driven elements from the last album, and it doesn't necessarily recreate Sigur Ros but I think it provides a clearer view of them as a band. It's great to have Njosnavelin (track 4) on CD finally after hearing various live versions of the song and hearing it in Vanilla Sky, and I must say I was not disappointed with the studio version in the least. They may not be overly experimental, but I think the album still shows great growth for the band as well as a little bit of a different approach to the music. And as usual, I think it's great that Sigur Ros can make you forget about all those little review-friendly novelties when you listen. No matter how much I read about all of these things, when the music starts I'm not thinking about the made-up language this is in or the lack of song titles or anything else. I just enjoy the music and forget all about all of the talk about how long their songs are. This album is 71 minutes long but seems to fly by for me as I listen. That in itself shows that they are succeeding instead of just appearing as some novelty to check out once and discard.
(by squarepusherzero)
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