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Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust / Sigur Rós

24 June 2008 No Comment

Iceland’s Sigur Rós return to once again prove that you don’t have to understand what the hell you’re hearing to fall in love with it. Their new album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, is the band’s fifth full-length offering, and perhaps their most dynamic. The album opens with “Gobbledigook,” a tumbling tune that sounds an awful lot like Arcade Fire, and is followed by “Inní mér syngur vitleysingur” which both seem to foretell a more robust—almost glam-era Bowie—grandeur to come. As a whole, however, the album settles somewhere in between that and more of the same luminous Jónsi Birgisson’s falsetto-driven landscapes that Sigur Rós is famous for. Surrealistically seductive in its soundscape, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, concludes with “All Alright”, a piano-propelled track which is one of their most beautiful songs to date. It also happens to be the band’s first predominantly English track. In it Birgisson whispers, “Now he’ll know/What I’m telling.” Fitting perhaps in its irony, but whatever language they use—Icelandic, Hopelandic, and now, English—the message is universal.

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