Editorial Product Review: :Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rósadopted 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 previouslyrecorded.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 notthough, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ...
Editorial Product Review: :Just when this Icelandic crew seemed stuck in loud/soft/loud/ soft rut a la Mogwai or Godspeed You Black Emperor, they release their most beguiling, subtle and beautiful album yet. This album, allegedly the group's first sung in Icelandic rather than their own made-up 'Hopelandic' (not that this listener could tell the difference) is relentlessly joyous, unaffectedly rad and inventive but never just for its own sake. Strings hold an ever more prominent place in the music, and this is a good thing. Songs unfold ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:UK version of the Icelandic experimental/alternative act's international debut (their third album overall). Originally released in 1999, 'Agaetis Bryjun' is multi-platinum in their homeland. Includes the singles, 'Svefn-G-Englar' and 'Ny Batteri'. Single disc packaged in a very cool envelope style digipak. 2000 release. :Reykjavík-based noise quartet Sigur Rós are the biggest band in their native Iceland, which should say much, much more about the collective insanity of that earthquake-ridden, blizzard-beaten crag of an island than anything to do with Sigur Rós's sound. But ...
Editorial Product Review: :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 ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:November 5 sees Sigur Rós release a 2 CD set featuring all-new recordings titled 'Hvarf - Heim'. The album has two titles because it is in effect two separate, but complementary, entities with two front covers and is issued as a limited edition run of two discs. Open it one way and it's 'Hvarf' ('disappeared' or 'haven') a five track electric studio record comprising mainly unreleased rarities from Sigur Rós's back-pages, none of which features on 'Heima' (the double DVD release issued on ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:November 5 sees Sigur Rós release a 2 CD set featuring all-new recordings titled 'Hvarf - Heim'. The album has two titles because it is in effect two separate, but complementary, entities with two front covers and is issued as a limited edition run of two discs. Open it one way and it's 'Hvarf' ('disappeared' or 'haven') a five track electric studio record comprising mainly unreleased rarities from Sigur Rós's back-pages, none of which features on 'Heima' (the double DVD release issued on ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Long awaited U.S. Fatcat Records reissue of the 1st single (packaged in slipcase) off the Icelandic experimental/alternative act's 4th album, 'Agaetis Byrjun'. Tracks, 'Sven-G-Englar', 'Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa' and 2 songs recorded live at the Iceland Opera House on 6/12/99, 'Nyia Lagid' & 'Syndir Guds'.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Sigur Ros first caught international attention when they released Agaetis Byrjun ('A Good Beginning') in 2000. Immediately considered one of the most respected ambient bands, they developed a cult status with their 2002 release, ( ). They toured with Radiohead and Bjork and have sold over one million records to date. Before their worldwide success, however, the band had released Von ('Hope'), on the Sugarcubes-owned label Bad Taste (Smekkleysa SM in Icelandic). An essential album in the Sigur Ros catalog, Von was never ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The tiny, strange, and environmentally harsh Viking country of Iceland has produced some of the world's most original pop music of the past few decades, despite being inhabited by just 300,000 people. Fostered by a physical isolation from the world and temperatures that strongly encourage humans to stay inside, the nation has developed a music that tends just as much towards a light ethereality as it does jagged, experimental harshness. The soundtrack to this ironically-titled music documentary (originally called Gargandi Snilld) mixes lesser-known ...
Steering clear of many of the pitfalls that sapped past video-on-demand broadband solutions, Vudu delivers the closest thing to "Netflix in a box" that we've seen to date.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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