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Music : VonBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Music and Von. Rating:  - Different, but very satisfyingIf you read other reviews, you will get a taste that this album is clearly different from Sigur Ros' others. However, for people like me, that is very enjoyable (even though I do like their others). I believe they were looking for their sound, and didn't know what worked or didn't. I can hear influences from many people, including My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, 7% Solution, and even Pink Floyd. As another reviewer stated, you can think of this album as a sound collage. It is very dreamy and atmospheric, and for me, that is what I look for in a lot of my music. So if you want to relax to something hypnotic, I would suggest this. Rating:  - Under Rated, and very good.My first experience with Sigur Ros: Living in a one room dormatory in Korea, I awoke in the middle of the night to the aggression of "Hún Jörð" When I cleared my eyes, I had looked across the darkened room to the album cover in full display on the computer screen. Needless to say it scared the hell out of me. This album is quite good, and isn't nearly as interested in finding a destination as "( )" or "Ágætis Byrjun". I especially enjoy "Dögun" and the meandering "Hafssól". Give this one a shot...it has some pleasant surprises. Rating: - Fascinating noise. This is really more of a "sound collage" than a propper album. Only four of the tracks on here really count as "songs" persay, with the eight other tracks consisting mostly of ambient noises arranged in a fairly artistic manner. If you were expecting something like the other three Sigur Rós albums, this is not it. Honestly, had the band broken up before going on to record Agaetis Byrjun, their musical legacy would be virtually nonexistant, a mere curiousity of the late 90's Icelandic music scene for only the most serious collectors. As "experimental" as this album sounds, this is certainly not the most original work Sigur Rós has done. This is not to say that Von is without its charms. The ambient noise compiled here makes a great soundtrack to a quiet night at home reading, studying, or just staring off into space and thinking. Each of the four "songs" is masterfully constructed with an otherworldy quality remniscent of Rennaisance polyphony and early 90's shoegazer music that would be further developed into the style Sigur Rós bases their later albums on. Overall, this is a very pleasant listening experience if you don't feel like listening to conventional music and want something a bit more etherial. The price listed is a bit high, but this might be worth purchasing if you're a die-hard fan or naturally interested in "unaccessible" works. For anyone casually interested, it's probably best to scour the internet or something; due to the rather iconic nature of the band, this recording is perhaps less obscure than one would expect. Rating:  - Good, but not essentialThe sound is cleary different from their other CDs, but it is still obviously Sigur Rós. It's pretty atmospheric, with some intense sound and voice effects. There's not too much to say about it. I won't say it's necessary to own this CD if you consider yourself a Sigur Rós fan, but if you feel the need to own all of their albums, go ahead and make a purchase: you probably won't be too disappointed. Rating: - Warming UpReleased in the US only in 2004, Von is really Sigur Ros's first album. It sounds it. Fascinated with what they could create musically, they were in development then, playing with sounds, with effects and with the interplay of the music and the created language of their later, much better and sometimes almost magical works. Look at Von as training and keep for your personal music player cuts 5 (Myrkur), 7 (Hafssol) and 11 (Syndir Guos), but not much else. |