CD - Sigur Rós – Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust

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CD - Sigur Rós – Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust

Reviews, By rheiner, 10th July, 2008

                               
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1. (00:03:05) Gobbledigook
2. (00:04:05) Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur
3. (00:05:15) Gooan Daginn
4. (00:03:33) Vio Spilum Endalaust
5. (00:09:24) Festival
6. (00:04:56) Meo Suo I Eyrum
7. (00:08:57) Ara Batur
8. (00:04:13) Illgresi
9. (00:03:49) Fljotavik
10. (00:02:01) Straumnes
11. (00:06:21) All Alright

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Sigur Rós are one of those bands who strive to reinvent their sound with each new release. Their new album Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust (With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly) marks a more dramatic change in direction than on previous outings, and has resulted in a few raised eyebrows among the band’s more purist fan base.

The opening pair of songs bubble along with a playfulness not often seen in Sigur Rós songs. Gobbeldigook, with its infectious la la la chorus, and Inní mér Syngur Vitleysingur with its giddy accumulation of rhymes and half rhymes share a rawness and immediacy that comes from the relatively short timeframe in which the album was written, recorded and mastered. Taking a leaf out of the book of fellow Icelanders Benni Hemm Hemm, both songs have been sprinkled liberally with drums, trumpets, glockenspiels, xylophones and who knows what other musical ephemera, all thrown into a glorious muddle that works triumphantly.

While this more upbeat sound has caused some head shaking among older fans, I’d say the band haven’t quite taken it far enough. The same short recording time gives the opening tracks their vitality also results in a bit of sameness of style that sees a couple of the tracks get lost around the middle of the album. Góðan Daginn and Við Spilum Endalaust aren’t bad, they’re simply pleasant, a bit of a let down for a band whose album usually comprise one killer track after another.

Nowhere is this more apparent that on the nine minute epic Festival. The opening sounds like any of a dozen songs from earlier releases, and the second half seems to be drummer Orri Páll Dýrason banging away for what feels like half an hour. The group’s previous release Hvarf/Heim was a set of 2 EPs – one electric, one acoustic – and it initially feels like this album could have gone down a similar path.

After repeated listens, what stands out more and more are the vocals of singer Jónsi Birgisson. In the past they were generally thrown into the mix with all the other instruments but on this album they’ve been mixed much further forward, and have a space and airyness about them that gives the album its overall coherence. Jónsi’s voice has never sounded so clear, and he attains a few moments of fragility that are simple incredible.

The influence of the band’s sometimes-acoustic tour of Iceland in 2006 is also apparent, with piano, guitar and pared-back strings making up much of the aural landscape. Despite the grandiosity of its 70-piece orchestra and 80-voice choir, Ára Bátur is anchored by a piano line that is one of the simplest and most breathtaking moments the band have ever committed to record, shatteringly beautiful, the way a shoreline or the horizon is.

The band’s new sound works best towards the end of the album. Illgresi, Fljótavík and the graceful coda Straumnes are all based around simple arrangements of vocals, guitar and piano, and feel like floating away on a boat, occasional deep strings echoing like whales underneath. Where previous album Takk had moments of relentless euphoria, the last third of this new album is full of the quiet emotion of the everyday, walking home at dusk and watching shadows fall over the world. It’s almost impossible not to be moved by these songs.

Hopefully the subtleties of Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust will further reveal themselves over time, but even so, it’s always better to see a band continually striving to make something new, even if they don’t always pull it off. Especially if, like Sigur Rós, they are so magnificent the many times they do get it right. The best tracks on this album are some of their best material yet. And the continued success of this band who sing in a language spoken by only 300,000 people is testament to their emotional strength and musical originality, always moving beyond the meaning of words into the realms of pure emotion.

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[ 本帖最后由 xblues 于 13-7-2008 20:20 编辑 ]

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Amazingly beautiful music, if you haven't tried listen to it, then you should.
I found this CD accidentally, then not long after I start listen to you, I released how special their music is.
Highly recommended!