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Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sigur Ros
Label: XL Recordings
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 471
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40364
UPC: 634904036423
EAN: 0634904036423
ASIN: B001ACY8D2
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Gobbledigook | | • | Inni mer syngur vitleysingur | | • | Godan daginn | | • | Vid spilum endalaust | | • | Festival | | • | Med sud i eyrum | | • | Ara batur | | • | Illgresi | | • | Fljotavik | | • | Straumnes | | • | All Alright |
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Product Description
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rosbradopted a looser approach in creating their fifth album Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.brThe album consequently is fresher and more human than anything they ve previouslybrrecorded.brRough edges, cracked notes, and the sound of fingers on strings are audible resulting in tracksbr(e.g. Illgresi ) that prove to be the band's sparsest and most affecting work to date. Worry notbrthough, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ensuring Sigur Ros brcommitment to challenging sonic limitations.brMed Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is truly a groundbreaking album for Sigur Ros. It s thebrfirst time they ve attempted to write, record, mix, release and support (by touring) an album inbrthe same year. Notoriously known for their laborious writing/recording style and their Icelandicbrroots, Sigur Ros decided to record an album outside of Iceland for the first time. Recording,brmixing and mastering sessions took place in such un-Reykjavik cities as New York (SearbrSound and Sterling Sound), London (Abbey Road and Assault Battery) and Havana. Thebrresult is pretty much their leave home album, the anti-Heima.brThe opening track, Gobbledigook , is a manifesto setter with its shifting/no time signature. Onbrthe last track, All Alright , Sigur Ros find themselves singing a song solely in English for thebrfirst time. The seventh track, Ara Batur , was performed with a full orchestra and the LondonbrOratory Boys Choir. This was recorded in one take with no overdubs and the result was 90brpeople playing at once and just one perfect take. This is their first album working with Floodbr(U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and the first since their debut to not be recorded with KenbrThomas. It was a true co-production, one that found Sigur Ros breaking out of oldbrmolds/habits.brThe cover artwork is a photo taken from a flyer for Ryan McGinley s most recent photobrexhibition in NYC, I Know Where the Summer Goes , and the image captures perfectly thebrspirit of the album, one of free-spirited happiness and exploration.brThe band will be touring the US throughout the fall of 2008 to support Med Sud I Eyrum VidbrSpilum Endalaust.
Album Description
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur R s 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. 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 R s 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 Deliciously pop. November 28, 2008
Jazzy V.
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date. br /A happy album from Sigur Ros sounds like an unlikely concept. br /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. br /The brisk opener, "Gobbledigook", all jumped-up drums and manic vocals, sets the tone: its poppy energy crackles on through much of this collection. br /But then along comes a song that changes everything. From innocuous beginnings - Jonsi Birgisson's fragile voice, a lone piano - "Ara Batur" swells into an epic, swallowing a whole choir and the London Sinfonietta. br /It is so ambitious and successful a piece of music that it threatens to overwhelm the surrounding tracks, making what came before seem frivolous and what follows, almost inconsequential. br /No matter: for this one uplifting, goosebump-raising moment, it is worth buying the whole album.
 Absolutely Incredible November 19, 2008
Helveticat
This new, more acoustic, style is fresh and uplifting. Really a great CD. Sigur Ros continues to be amazing.
 Very Soft and Uhhh, not in English! November 18, 2008
SUPERMAN (THE 40 WATT IN ATHENS)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
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 love it.
A lighter, exuberant and more dynamic set. I'm loving it October 30, 2008
Gimme_Jazz (Casablanca, Morocco)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
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. br /To the horror of some of their adoring fans, the CD actually contains a few melodies which one might tentatively describe as pop tunes. br /More a development than a departure, the album blends a lighter, more dynamic approach with out-there creative impulses. br /The songs are sung in Icelandic, rather than the band's invented language of Hopelandic, and one song, "All Alright", is even performed in English, albeit via the singer Jonsi's gossamer falsetto. br /Above all, these songs feel celebratory -- with a gleeful, stomping beat, soaring strings and deliciously rhyming couplets. br /It is all pleasing to the ears and immaculately constructed. br /Produced by the renowned Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins) and assisted by a string quartet and brass section, the album was recorded in its entirety this year: impressive speed, reflected in the joyous, unfettered arrangements and the sheer plasticity of the music. br /What Sigur Ros have lost in the ringing of fairy bells, they may just gain in the ringing of cash registers. br /Possibly, if Sigur Ros had intended to take over the world, they might have translated their album title into its English version: "With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly". br /I'm loving it.
Spankin Whaty What What? October 27, 2008
N. Martin (Iowa City, IA. USA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
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. br / br /And if the tune "Go an daginn" is about spanking then it really is silly. br / br /Good Day!
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