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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0634904036423
Label: XL Recordings
Manufacturer: XL Recordings
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: XL Recordings
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Studio: XL Recordings
Sales Rank: 492
MPN: 40364




Disc 1:
  1. Gobbledigook
  2. Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
  3. Gódan daginn
  4. Vid spilum endalaust
  5. Festival
  6. Med sud í eyrum
  7. Ára bátur
  8. Íllgresi
  9. Fljótavík
  10. Straumnes
  11. All Alright
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Product Description:
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós
adopted 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 previously
recorded.
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 not
though, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ensuring Sigur Rós
commitment to challenging sonic limitations.
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is truly a groundbreaking album for Sigur Rós. It s the
first time they ve attempted to write, record, mix, release and support (by touring) an album in
the same year. Notoriously known for their laborious writing/recording style and their Icelandic
roots, Sigur Rós decided to record an album outside of Iceland for the first time. Recording,
mixing and mastering sessions took place in such un-Reykjavik cities as New York (Sear
Sound and Sterling Sound), London (Abbey Road and Assault & Battery) and Havana. The
result is pretty much their leave home album, the anti-Heima.
The opening track, Gobbledigook , is a manifesto setter with its shifting/no time signature. On
the last track, All Alright , Sigur Rós find themselves singing a song solely in English for the
first time. The seventh track, Ára Bátur , was performed with a full orchestra and the London
Oratory Boys Choir. This was recorded in one take with no overdubs and the result was 90
people playing at once and just one perfect take. This is their first album working with Flood
(U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and the first since their debut to not be recorded with Ken
Thomas. It was a true co-production, one that found Sigur Rós breaking out of old
molds/habits.
The cover artwork is a photo taken from a flyer for Ryan McGinley s most recent photo
exhibition in NYC, I Know Where the Summer Goes , and the image captures perfectly the
spirit of the album, one of free-spirited happiness and exploration.
The band will be touring the US throughout the fall of 2008 to support Med Sud I Eyrum Vid
Spilum Endalaust.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Deliciously pop.
The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date.
A happy album from Sigur Rós sounds like an unlikely concept.
The band specialise in music that is about as sunny as an Arctic winter - vast tundras of sound, dark with melancholy and loneliness. So their fifth album comes as a surprise.
The brisk opener, "Gobbledigook", all jumped-up drums and manic vocals, sets the tone: its poppy energy crackles on through much of this ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Absolutely Incredible
This new, more acoustic, style is fresh and uplifting. Really a great CD. Sigur Ros continues to be amazing.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Very Soft and Uhhh, not in English!
amazon.com kept putting this band in my recommended section, so i bought it. then i wondered if i was going insane or whether the dude's english was just really bad. he was speaking icelandic! what the hell? i need to have an idea what the heck they are saying, without having to learn some obscure new language. it is also a little too soft for my taste. i mean, the band has some neat arrangements, obviously they have talent, but the foreign language and too soft tone makes it hard for me to say i really ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A lighter, exuberant and more dynamic set. I'm loving it
Their fifth album starts in buoyant, wide-eyed pop mode, moves through some twinkling, delicate passages, revisits their usual slow-build post-rock prettiness and reaches an ambitious climax with "Ara Batur", an epic, orchestral requiem recorded with the London Sinfonietta and the London Oratory Boy's Choir, before ebbing away.
To the horror of some of their adoring fans, the CD actually contains a few melodies which one might tentatively describe as pop tunes.
More a development than a departure, ... Read More



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Spankin Whaty What What?
If i spoke Iclandic this may sound better, but since I don't it just sounds silly. They really sound like The Samples, remember The Samples, they made all their good music in the early 90s... They sang in English.

And if the tune "Góðan daginn" is about spanking then it really is silly.

Good Day!



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