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Track 4 is absolutely gorgeous!!! Amazing!! :) |
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listening to this just makes me wish I had a girlfriend to love and to listen to this song with... I think it would be such an amazing experience to just sit and listen to this with someone you love... it's absolutely gorgeous! |
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great cd. I love nr.1 |
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Ahaha, you silly romantic! Yeah, that track stood out the first time I heard it, one of those things you love instantly... the rest is slowly growing on me. |
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i've been meaning to check out some Sigur Ros, what kind of music is this though? from what I gather it's not IDM, but could be mistaken |
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it's like orchestral rock kind of... it's really nice... |
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I AM a hopeless romantic... and when will girls realize this and gather beside me!!! :) |
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they're too busy being attracted to the abusive jerks who just want sex, silly! |
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It's so true! It makes me want to bare my soul and cry on somebody's shoulder, while listening to Sigur Ros. |
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listening to a song called "Agaetis Byrjun" at the moment... very nice music indeed, gotta get more of this :D |
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I really recomend watching the video for "Svefn-G-Englar" on www.sputnik7.com Beautifull!! |
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i just downloaded that song :) gonna listen now |
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track 4 is my favourite too :) |
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does track 4 have a title? or are these the songs referred to as "untitled" on Soulseek? |
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i havent got it yet, coz i just spent a chunk of money on my wire subscrription, so it will be a while (not long) beforre i get it. if i get that firrst, which rright now i think i will. o btw in this months wire therre is a GYBE review of the new album that i have yet to rread. i might get that if it's rrecomended. i have rread a snipet of it and it says on the album it rread... Godspeed You! Black Emperor rrather than the usual Godspeed You Black Emperor! i wounderr what thats all about??? |
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a bit of detail from Alex Torrance, the guy who did the Artwork... "i did the packaging for ( ) and 'directed' kleber on the site. it's based quite loosely on a promo cd-rom i made for the album. but i've let them get on with it mostly as they're a lot better than me. as for the artwork, yes the image is pixelated. the band gave me 10 photos they had taken with their digital cameras. i think they were about 640x480, 72dpi. very lo-res. the band had also manipulated the images in PS. just made them greyscale and adjusted the contrast a bit. they had already decided they wanted the slip case with die cut brackets in it and wanted the booklet to be blank, except from the front, on which they wanted their images (one for each territory). they had also decided on the stock: tracing paper. they wanted the images to be vignetted, but to look natural. after a few attempts in photoshop with vectors and feathering i decided it would be better to mask the images using painted materials. we ended up using plants from outside the studio to paint textures onto paper. i took these paintings, scanned them into the mac, and started to work away. this is what the imagery is all taken from. i actually quite like the pixelated images as they contrast very highly with the paint layers, which are full of texture and very high res. this is best displayed inside the booklet (although the silver print may be a little to faint to see) and the ipk backdrops. you can see the backdrops here: href="http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/marketing/artwork/sigur%20ro |
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you can see the backdrops here: as for the booklet being blank. it isn't. it has images in it. just no words. so what's the problem?" ... |
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i love album arrt |
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"El Captain, have you actually seen the artwork? Or just heard rumours? "Pretention without Justification" surely is not as bad as "Criticism without Knowledge", otherwise known as Ignorance. Firstly the booklet isn't 100% blank. At first this is what the band wanted, although we decided to add some images, very faintly, in silver. The band's reasoning for having the booklet blank ties in with the fact that there are no "lyrics". Vocals, but not lyrics. The booklet is blank to allow people who have bought the album to write their own thoughts, lyrics, sketches and doodles as they listen. Surely you've been idly sitting at your desk with a pen and pad in front of you and got lost in the music you were listening to at the time and ended up with a page, or more, of words, pictures, etc. What's wrong with taking this further. The album has no title as the band never thought about titling it as they were making it, and didn't want to give it a title just for the sake of it. I'm not sure how they came about the 'bracket' shape, and ( ) is just the easiest typographic way of representing this. There are no titles so people can feel free to interperate the songs in their own way. Also it's because there are no lyrics. The songs had working titles, and as they have been playing these songs live for 2 years now, many fans know these titles too. And these are what the MP3s you have are titled as. I can understand that people have different tastes, and I'm not berating you for that, I am merely putting forward the "justification" for your perceived "pretension". If you want to know more, then you could visit to read interviews with the band. But as you've already made up your mind I wouldn't expect you to."... These are posts from a design board we're both memebers of, just in case you were wondering who he's directing these at.... The one record that me |
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hehe...people were giving him a hard time over the concept of drawing on a CD cover....(it is just a bit wack...the concept, that is, not the artwork which I think prettys gorgous...what an excellent way to earn a living...) |
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i can't wait to see them at the moore theatre in seattle on the 26th! |
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The fourth track was referred to by them as 'Njósnavélin' when played live... I think. Personally, I don't think you need any sort of reference point when listening to Sigur Ros. The music is so pure and honest as it is, anything else would only serve as a distraction. |
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i just wondered if there was a title so I knew what to download on Soulseek ;) |
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just look for Sigur Ros () ... about the titles, again from the artwork guy.. "There are no titles so people can feel free to interperate the songs in their own way. Also it's because there are no lyrics. The songs had working titles, and as they have been playing these songs live for 2 years now, many fans know these titles too. And these are what the MP3s you have are titled as."... |
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Ack, am I the only person in the world disappointed by this album? So far I've just found it boring, and the constant repeating of the same lyric across multiple tracks is really tedious. People new to Sigur Ros, please listen to their Agaetis Byrjun album - it's brilliant - but give ( ) a miss! |
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blah, don't listen to danbrusca... get both albums... :) seriously, I liked Agaetis Byrjun, but found the singing way too whinny for a lot of it... this album seems a lot better in this area, and I dunno, it's already hit me as a better album of the two... |
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track 4 is the least good on ( ) to me, its really good but others are better if you ask me. |
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this is some of the most beautiful music I've heard in quite some time I must say... I'm almost crying here dammit!! :) |
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yeah.. i downloaded an early live version of track 4 a few weeks before the album came out i must say, that version was better than the album version.. the mp3 quality was horrible..you could tell the person put it through a heavy noise reduction filter.. but the murkiness went a long nicely with the song i listened to it constantly until the album came out..so gorgeous.. its one of those songs that can be either really sad, or uplifting, depending on your mood.. the version i had was a bit more melancholy i think it.. the singing was different... it choked me up a lot im still kicking myself for missing their concert last week... well.. wasnt really my fault.. just my po' ass friends who couldnt afford tickets |
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such a wonderful album, just perfect in every aspect. for those who are curious, i found the working titles of the songs from different reviews: 1 vaka 2 fyrsta 3 samskeyti 4 njosnavelin (the nothing song) 5 alafoss 6 e-bow 7 (the death song) 8 popplagio (the pop song) i recommend 1, 2, and 8. oh good lord, i love 8. DEFINATELY worth checking out. |
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My favourite tracks aren't on either album as it happens. First off there's Von, which I would like playing at my funeral, though I have no idea where it comes from. Secondly, Death Announcements & Funerals from Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson's Angels Of The Universe soundtrack is a beautiful piece of music. |
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von would be from their first album 'von' i think death announcements shows up on their ny batteri ep also |
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by the way...has anyone seen the special features that you get when you put the cd in and go to their website? theres some live videos and tracks available |
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except it's called Bium Bium Bambalo on there :-) But a great song it is! |
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My GOD I can't get over this album... it's absolutely stunning... I only bought this yesterday but already it's like a religious experience for me... I feel so uplifted and ready to face whatever challenges are ahead of me after listening to this... yet it's so bittersweet I want to cry when I listen... this tops anything released this year that I've heard, easily!!! |
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listening to track 4 of the new album right now.. only thing i've heard.. that nigga voice just suck plus the boys on the trizzack ain't pullin through.. this music is really nothing new, people were making stuff like this 10 years ago (in english) |
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"people were making stuff like this 10 years ago" so what? |
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good music doesn't have to be innovative and ground breaking... |
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i only said that cos people make a big deal about how different sigur ros are.. and they're pretty different for now, but they're not that dissimilar from the shoegazer stuff of the early to mid 90s.. anyway, i don't really mind that it's nothing new, it's just that sigur ros are overly FORMULAIC.. you can pretty much predict how all of their songs are gonna go. plus, as i so eloquently put, i don't like the singer's voice much, especially in this song. |
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Well, well. Here's me thinking there were only 2 albums. Learn something new every day :P But that's enough for one day. |
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theres also a von\recycled cd i think but i havent heard it. |
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( ) is music for me to get lost in and fall in love with life over and over and over again, infinitely many time throughout eternity. i do hope those who found it not so good for one reason or another will give another go. maybe try letting go as if you were floating in an ocean, or in a cloud, wieghtlessly. it's a beautiful swim. |
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please don't overanlyize this amazing albumn.... please |
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:) |
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vinyl edition out tomorrow :) FATLP 22 |
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i saw sigur rós live last friday night....simply amazing!!! if any of you have the chance to go, don't miss it! |
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actually, bium bium bambalo and death announcements are different songs, and are both on ny batteri and angels of the universe, coincidentally i think 'death announcements' is listed in icelandic on ny batteri though they're both great regardless |
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