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Sigur Ros Album
Title: () Label:
MCA Bones:
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Maybe the first Icelandic album that isn't techno Reviewed
By: Donnie B
Sigur Ros are slowly becoming one of the hottest tickets to fetch.
Selling out churches and ampitheaters around the US now (and Europe for quite sometime), Sigur Ros is quickly becoming the new craze in the music scene. With their third album, and major label debut ( ) coming out, they are on a high tide.
At first glance, a music novice or even expert, would look at the bands non-speakable title () and write the band off as a gimic. The no song titles (Untitled #1 through #8), no lyrics, no tour pictures or any other type of information except random grey and white pictures of what appears to be trees, could lead someone to that assumption.
But in reality, Sigur Ros waited until they had established them selfs as a ligit act to show their real colors. () isn't titled that because of some hookey ploy, it is because there music isn't about words or even lyrics, it is simply emotion. You dont necesarily connect with a song, but you become a feeling. Weither its happy or sad or anxious or depressed, there music makes you feel a way. Their 3rd release, and best yet, is a great showing off how, by using almost no words (except for the occasional mix of icelandic and jibberish )and acouple 6 to 13 minute songs, a band can make you feel like your in a movie, with a soundtrack playing behind you.
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