Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
(Audio CD) by Sigur Ros
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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
June 24, 2008
Studio:
XL Recordings
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 70 reviews
Description:
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós 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. Íllgresi ) 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 Rós commitment to challenging sonic limitations. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is truly a groundbreaking album for Sigur Rós. 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 Rós 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 Rós find themselves singing a song solely in English for the first time. The seventh track, Ára Bátur , 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 Rós 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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Spectacular, unusual, affecting musicDec 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.
BeautifulDec 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 LevelDec 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.
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Bland is an understatementDec 11, 2008 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.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Deliciously pop.Nov 28, 2008 The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date.
A happy album from Sigur Rós 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 - Jónsi Birgisson's fragile voice, a lone piano - "Ára Bátur" 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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