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CD by sublime Icelandic band Sigur Ros, untitled, collectors treasure
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Sigur Ros is an Icelandic post-rock, slow-core ambient dream pop band, comprising singer-guitarist Jonsi Birgisson, bassist Georg Holm and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson. We have several CDs by them. This one is untitled, or self-titled. Its final track is my favourite, being incantatory and hypnotic. Their music is subtle, wistful, more melancholy than mellow, conjuring the sense of a frozen lake. Adjectives others have aptly applied include atmospheric, bittersweet, sentimental, sombre, nocturnal, androgynous, meditative, lonely and epic.
The singer has an understated style, emerging from the back of the throat rather than the top of the head. It seems reluctant, not full bodied. If I’m feeling glum, it makes me wallow. If I’m not, it frustrates me. Mostly I hear it as the muted wailing of an elf beneath a glacier. A harbinger of climate change?
Likewise, their cryptic visual art hovers between yearning and nonchalance. Between cold clarity and wispy mystery. Between shuffling and aching. The symbol on this CD could be a Viking’s answer to Yin and Yang, or a symbol of the womb, life, or the gates of death. The shapes form a frame around a hollow through which the album gleams. On the disc shimmer eerie patterns, like ancient water veins viewed from space.
Their tours have sell-out concerts, their reviewers rave, and I’m fairly sure I’ve heard their music in soundtracks. Major music magazines like ‘The Wire’ have featured interviews with them, conveying quiet intelligence. It’s as if they’ve made an art form out of reverse-exhibitionism, the stark opposite of attention-seeking. But as Buddhists have warned: if you push something to an extreme it becomes its opposite. And as Oscar Wilde noted, the greatest pretentiousness is unpretentiousness. Is it possible to overdose on restraint? Listen and decide for yourself.
The singer has an understated style, emerging from the back of the throat rather than the top of the head. It seems reluctant, not full bodied. If I’m feeling glum, it makes me wallow. If I’m not, it frustrates me. Mostly I hear it as the muted wailing of an elf beneath a glacier. A harbinger of climate change?
Likewise, their cryptic visual art hovers between yearning and nonchalance. Between cold clarity and wispy mystery. Between shuffling and aching. The symbol on this CD could be a Viking’s answer to Yin and Yang, or a symbol of the womb, life, or the gates of death. The shapes form a frame around a hollow through which the album gleams. On the disc shimmer eerie patterns, like ancient water veins viewed from space.
Their tours have sell-out concerts, their reviewers rave, and I’m fairly sure I’ve heard their music in soundtracks. Major music magazines like ‘The Wire’ have featured interviews with them, conveying quiet intelligence. It’s as if they’ve made an art form out of reverse-exhibitionism, the stark opposite of attention-seeking. But as Buddhists have warned: if you push something to an extreme it becomes its opposite. And as Oscar Wilde noted, the greatest pretentiousness is unpretentiousness. Is it possible to overdose on restraint? Listen and decide for yourself.
- Date Listed:27/07/2023
- Last Edited:25/08/2023
- Condition:Used
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