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US Mall 1 - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
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List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: XL Recordings
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0634904036423
Label: XL Recordings
Manufacturer: XL Recordings
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: XL Recordings
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Studio: XL Recordings
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Summary: Ice-tastic!
Comment: This is my first try with a foreign language CD. Sigur Ros is a great band from Iceland and their beautiful melodies are wonderful to listen to. I know that American music is popular all over the world, now I know what it feels like to get into the sound of a band, even if you do not understand the language they are singing in. It is very different, a very interesting sound.
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Summary: I just cant stop listening to this album
Comment: There are some albums where you like one or two songs and the rest just does nothing for you. then there are albums where you like every song on it but then after a while it gets old and it falls by the wayside. this album took me completely off guard. i heard a song on a local college station and took a chance buying the whole album....i must have listened to it through ten times or more since i bought it and each song remains fresh and new. im even hard pressed to name one or two favorites beacause each song remains as strong as the one before it....the songs are rich and passionate. emotional but catchy...i dont understand the lyrics but you dont really have to. the music pulls you in and takes you in a "pied piper" fashon....i think i can officially call myself a die hard fan
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lacking emotional connectivity.
Comment: What happened to my dearest Sigur Ros? Why so mellow?
I understand everything/one must evolve. But why in this direction? It simply lacks the intensity found in their earlier works. It should `work', but it simply fails to click with me.
Track by track analysis:
Globbdigook- Downright pop. Or freak-folk, depending upon how you look at it. Catches you at first listen, but ultimately, like nearly everything on this album, lacks substance. The `lalalalala'ing? Are you kidding me? I know I shouldn't play the compare game, but people. Listen to Untitled One (Vaka), then this in succession. Serious drop in quality.
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur -A bad circus. Chaos. Sudden explosion of sound. Appears like it's trying to be catchy, but it isn't even that. I'm amused by the fact some of it sounds like it's in English though. `A thirsty anger' `kinky' `we flip and throttle' .
Góðan daginn- My favorite of the album. It's a comforting song to me. Completely different direction than my older favorite SR tracks. However, it just works for this song. It's beautiful. Gives me hope for some other potential off this album. I feel some actual emotion here!
Við spilum endalaust- I have nothing to say about this. Evokes no emotion from me.
Festival- Starts slow. I like to think I have patience for buildups, but I lost it here. 4:45, finally hearing signs of life again. I like it when the strings get a little more emphasis opposed to the blasted overused drums. Nice when the buildup reaches its full point. Yet I manage to forget this every time until it gets to that point.
Með suð í eyrum- I don't have a proper version of this currently, and am not able to acquire one at the moment.
Ára bátur- Initially reminds me of Samskeyti. I'm gooing to be honest here, no idea why I don't like this.
Illgresi- I've never listened to a SR song and consciously thought "I wish this was in English" until now. There's nothing to focus on. In situations like this I typically suck it up and listen to the meaning the artist is trying to express, but I get nothing but slight sadness. If it felt impassionate to me I believe I would feel differently about this song.
Fljótavík- The beginning was encouraging. I'm not sure what makes this song different from Ilgresi for me, but this one feels more emotional. A feel a little Vaka off ( ) here. A stronger track off the album. The ending is quite beautiful and touching.
Straumnes- The transition from Fljótavík to this does seem very cohesive. Very relaxing song. Depending on who you are Iguess this could be a positive thing, but I prefer their intense side personally. Not a bad track though. Arguably a filler.
All Alright- I never thought they would ever create a song with English lyrics. I'm really a fan of the lyrics, simple but evocative all the same. The actual music lacks the intensity of say, Untitled Eight, but what can one do?
This doesn't even really seem like a two-star review. When everything else SR produces is just so damn euphoric, a slightly above average album [even that's pushing it in this situation] from them warrants two stars. I attempt to respect their right to change. It's just incredibly difficult for me to lose a band I've been so emotionally connected with for so long. ( ) is one of the top three albums I've ever heard. The passion on that album is untouchable. It's almost like they're afraid to go back into that territory, with each proceeding album more and more mellow. But what do I know.
The new music `should' work. For some reason it just does not connect with me. I can't make it through the entire thing without a `Cold', `Untitled Eight' ,'Avalon', `Svo Hljott', `Olsen Olsen', or `Ebow' listening.
Customer Rating:
Summary: More Icelandic beauty.
Comment: Endalaust is an interesting album to me. If my impressions of the band's general sound from listening to ( ) is accurate, which I'm pretty sure it is, then Endalaust is a significant departure from that. It's less post rock and more hippie indie wanky stuff, in a very entertaining way. But plenty of bands have changed their sound, what's interesting to me is how they don't abandon their old ways. Their earlier sound slowly creeps back into the album while it's playing, eventually completely taking over again. It tells a story just with the evolution of its sound more than any album I can remember. It seems to me like a youth growing older, or maybe an adult reverting to childhood, I can't tell which. But it's really beautiful anyway.
"Gobbledigook" is the single with the music video featuring happy, dancing, naked people; imagery that really fits the song pretty well. The pounding drums make the song for me, and the off-beat guitar and high pitched voices accompany it well. The next few songs continue with the same feel, using strong beats, plinking keys, and catchy vocals to catch the attention. "Festival" is a more traditional long, slowly building track that reaches a soaring climax, although it has a quality that differentiates it from similar songs they've done before. It's just the choice of instrumentation, but it captures all the power of that technique while still sounding new. "Ára Bátur" reminds me the most of their old sound, but as it goes on an orchestra builds up and reaches a swelling crescendo so powerful that while listening to it in the car, I forgot to make my turn. The next few songs are lower key, softer tracks, none of which astound, but they're nice enough to listen to. The last song, "All Alright", is the band's first sung in English, although it doesn't make a difference when I can barely understand him anyway. It's a nice enough way to close out the record, though.
Customer Rating:
Summary: En Islandia
Comment: En Xalapa (lugar desde donde se redacta esta publicación) no ha parado de llover desde hace ya una semana, día tras día, y no solo unas gotas, sino hasta que las alcantarillas drenan en sentido retrógrado y las calles forman ríos que abordan la banqueta y las viviendas. Hoy amaneció el clima así, y durante más de una hora que pasé navegando avenidas escuché este GRAN DISCO (Claudio). Este es el quinto album de estudio de la banda Sigur Ros, provenientes de Islandia (donde los críticos dicen que solo hay hielo y Björk). Y no se si fue el clima o mi humor, pero pienso que hay que tener corazón de piedra para no ser tocado por estos sonidos; melodías parsimoniosas, coros angelicales, una guitarra eléctrica que suspira cada vez que la acaricia el arco de violoncello, y cuando no es así brilla con stacattos y letras que no entiendo lo que dicen pero que evocan muchas imagenes. Otro comentario que surgió es que es un ambiental tan épico que bien puede ser soundtrack de una película de Narnia -y si me gustan- pero lástima, el soundtrack real es de Regina Spektor.
Quieren una recomendación? Escuchen el primer track de la placa -Gobbledigook- con audífonos.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ice-tastic!
Comment: This is my first try with a foreign language CD. Sigur Ros is a great band from Iceland and their beautiful melodies are wonderful to listen to. I know that American music is popular all over the world, now I know what it feels like to get into the sound of a band, even if you do not understand the language they are singing in. It is very different, a very interesting sound.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I just cant stop listening to this album
Comment: There are some albums where you like one or two songs and the rest just does nothing for you. then there are albums where you like every song on it but then after a while it gets old and it falls by the wayside. this album took me completely off guard. i heard a song on a local college station and took a chance buying the whole album....i must have listened to it through ten times or more since i bought it and each song remains fresh and new. im even hard pressed to name one or two favorites beacause each song remains as strong as the one before it....the songs are rich and passionate. emotional but catchy...i dont understand the lyrics but you dont really have to. the music pulls you in and takes you in a "pied piper" fashon....i think i can officially call myself a die hard fan
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lacking emotional connectivity.
Comment: What happened to my dearest Sigur Ros? Why so mellow?
I understand everything/one must evolve. But why in this direction? It simply lacks the intensity found in their earlier works. It should `work', but it simply fails to click with me.
Track by track analysis:
Globbdigook- Downright pop. Or freak-folk, depending upon how you look at it. Catches you at first listen, but ultimately, like nearly everything on this album, lacks substance. The `lalalalala'ing? Are you kidding me? I know I shouldn't play the compare game, but people. Listen to Untitled One (Vaka), then this in succession. Serious drop in quality.
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur -A bad circus. Chaos. Sudden explosion of sound. Appears like it's trying to be catchy, but it isn't even that. I'm amused by the fact some of it sounds like it's in English though. `A thirsty anger' `kinky' `we flip and throttle' .
Góðan daginn- My favorite of the album. It's a comforting song to me. Completely different direction than my older favorite SR tracks. However, it just works for this song. It's beautiful. Gives me hope for some other potential off this album. I feel some actual emotion here!
Við spilum endalaust- I have nothing to say about this. Evokes no emotion from me.
Festival- Starts slow. I like to think I have patience for buildups, but I lost it here. 4:45, finally hearing signs of life again. I like it when the strings get a little more emphasis opposed to the blasted overused drums. Nice when the buildup reaches its full point. Yet I manage to forget this every time until it gets to that point.
Með suð í eyrum- I don't have a proper version of this currently, and am not able to acquire one at the moment.
Ára bátur- Initially reminds me of Samskeyti. I'm gooing to be honest here, no idea why I don't like this.
Illgresi- I've never listened to a SR song and consciously thought "I wish this was in English" until now. There's nothing to focus on. In situations like this I typically suck it up and listen to the meaning the artist is trying to express, but I get nothing but slight sadness. If it felt impassionate to me I believe I would feel differently about this song.
Fljótavík- The beginning was encouraging. I'm not sure what makes this song different from Ilgresi for me, but this one feels more emotional. A feel a little Vaka off ( ) here. A stronger track off the album. The ending is quite beautiful and touching.
Straumnes- The transition from Fljótavík to this does seem very cohesive. Very relaxing song. Depending on who you are Iguess this could be a positive thing, but I prefer their intense side personally. Not a bad track though. Arguably a filler.
All Alright- I never thought they would ever create a song with English lyrics. I'm really a fan of the lyrics, simple but evocative all the same. The actual music lacks the intensity of say, Untitled Eight, but what can one do?
This doesn't even really seem like a two-star review. When everything else SR produces is just so damn euphoric, a slightly above average album [even that's pushing it in this situation] from them warrants two stars. I attempt to respect their right to change. It's just incredibly difficult for me to lose a band I've been so emotionally connected with for so long. ( ) is one of the top three albums I've ever heard. The passion on that album is untouchable. It's almost like they're afraid to go back into that territory, with each proceeding album more and more mellow. But what do I know.
The new music `should' work. For some reason it just does not connect with me. I can't make it through the entire thing without a `Cold', `Untitled Eight' ,'Avalon', `Svo Hljott', `Olsen Olsen', or `Ebow' listening.
Customer Rating:
Summary: More Icelandic beauty.
Comment: Endalaust is an interesting album to me. If my impressions of the band's general sound from listening to ( ) is accurate, which I'm pretty sure it is, then Endalaust is a significant departure from that. It's less post rock and more hippie indie wanky stuff, in a very entertaining way. But plenty of bands have changed their sound, what's interesting to me is how they don't abandon their old ways. Their earlier sound slowly creeps back into the album while it's playing, eventually completely taking over again. It tells a story just with the evolution of its sound more than any album I can remember. It seems to me like a youth growing older, or maybe an adult reverting to childhood, I can't tell which. But it's really beautiful anyway.
"Gobbledigook" is the single with the music video featuring happy, dancing, naked people; imagery that really fits the song pretty well. The pounding drums make the song for me, and the off-beat guitar and high pitched voices accompany it well. The next few songs continue with the same feel, using strong beats, plinking keys, and catchy vocals to catch the attention. "Festival" is a more traditional long, slowly building track that reaches a soaring climax, although it has a quality that differentiates it from similar songs they've done before. It's just the choice of instrumentation, but it captures all the power of that technique while still sounding new. "Ára Bátur" reminds me the most of their old sound, but as it goes on an orchestra builds up and reaches a swelling crescendo so powerful that while listening to it in the car, I forgot to make my turn. The next few songs are lower key, softer tracks, none of which astound, but they're nice enough to listen to. The last song, "All Alright", is the band's first sung in English, although it doesn't make a difference when I can barely understand him anyway. It's a nice enough way to close out the record, though.
Customer Rating:
Summary: En Islandia
Comment: En Xalapa (lugar desde donde se redacta esta publicación) no ha parado de llover desde hace ya una semana, día tras día, y no solo unas gotas, sino hasta que las alcantarillas drenan en sentido retrógrado y las calles forman ríos que abordan la banqueta y las viviendas. Hoy amaneció el clima así, y durante más de una hora que pasé navegando avenidas escuché este GRAN DISCO (Claudio). Este es el quinto album de estudio de la banda Sigur Ros, provenientes de Islandia (donde los críticos dicen que solo hay hielo y Björk). Y no se si fue el clima o mi humor, pero pienso que hay que tener corazón de piedra para no ser tocado por estos sonidos; melodías parsimoniosas, coros angelicales, una guitarra eléctrica que suspira cada vez que la acaricia el arco de violoncello, y cuando no es así brilla con stacattos y letras que no entiendo lo que dicen pero que evocan muchas imagenes. Otro comentario que surgió es que es un ambiental tan épico que bien puede ser soundtrack de una película de Narnia -y si me gustan- pero lástima, el soundtrack real es de Regina Spektor.
Quieren una recomendación? Escuchen el primer track de la placa -Gobbledigook- con audífonos.
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