Rating Reviews : 
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.
I was inspired to write this review as a result Amazon posted a comment to another reviewer, "This guy hates everything." I am still far from being a one star review to write, and I thought only produce another gutting snob curmudgeon every piece of garbage, a world of art tends to be a commodity? This review is my unequivocal no! It 'much easier to write a bad review, because, while so much that is bad is bad in the same way, things that are truly beautiful to lookradiate its own light equipment (yes, I aped Tolstoy there!) E 'hard on something you love to write, our words often do not understand what is moving in our hearts. For me, Við Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust is such thing as a counterpoint (a). () As an album (also a work of genius to 5 stars in my opinion) is an epic meditation on grief and loss. I feel much when I hear, but hope and joy are certainly not easy to get the feelings in my mind. Feelingsare dark, intense, transcendent, at the moment, but with the elegance of suspension of the title 3-4, I feel like I am in a place that is more comparable to the purgatory of the sky. In this sense, after the pain, meditation and the elimination of () Við Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust be reached in a sense, for the sky.
The music of Sigur Ros is always defined by a degree of engagement with life and death. I think the harsh reality of death and the anxiety it creates is of fundamental importance fortheir music. While () looks deeply into the crevasse great metaphysical doubt and fear dip, which is omnipresent in this postmodern era, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum Við their Redemption Song later. () We are told that we all die. Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust Við says yes, we will die, but because life is impermanent, we like to dance and cry! This is to affirm life in the deepest sense, raging against the dying of the light in the only wayThere will be peace.
The album begins with Gobbledigoo, an effervescent, Frolic in child abandonment. One could almost hear the vocal lines repeated at the beginning, chorus and the bridge as a youthful contempt, mockery, but with no malicious intent. They are too easy to cry out to the shy boy looked at his feet in a corner, then let go all come and dance, it's time to play!
The dance is a word that comes to my mind the second track, to see that vitleysingur Inní syngur mérwas even forced to perform a surly misanthrope like me laugh, and to flail my limbs, without, at home or I alarming fellow commuters on the subway as a driving rhythm, I have been glorified in Commander Dance! The bridge, which is dynamic intensity and swells polyphonic size is one of hope, inspiration and happy musical experience that you will find anywhere. It 'hard to listen to this song and are not grateful for every moment wein this life.
I hate filling Góðan Godan as cover, it is reassuring to the other side and a transition between the two beautiful highly expressive, songs of hope for the album. Vid spilum við get us back on the train with the hope of a similar piano / bass line beat that drives us, but with the familiar and reassuring (if a little 'subdued) feeling of joy and purpose.
The next seven tracks are an easy step. The first four arealmost like laughter, joy and celebration of life, love and friends, but ironically Fest brings us to the porch, cumulous clouds and a moon more silver, a cigarette in hand, in the night and mortality, and crawled back to us comes when our serotonin levels begin to come down again. But while there is a clear sense of melancholy that can be heard, never reached the depths of the absolute loss, punctuation (). No, it is the ambivalence of death reminds usWhy you can be so painful, that is because we love so much. This feeling seems to be the rest of the album, quiet, gentle, penetrating deep love and knowledge that one day everything ends. When we heard that there is still joy in our hearts still smoking, but it's a joy tempered by the tides. ARA is the culmination of ephemeral bátur laughter of young people with the painful memory of last loss, as it gradually builds to a crescendo tear tear, which is simply sublime.
Here we are in this world, everything is fleeting, love that seems so profound as the form lines on our faces and the unbearable lightness of being in all the recesses of our souls. Yet, somehow, the wind rustling the leaves and the pale light from the sky drops to bring our hearts and we no longer afraid of the stage in this strange and wonderful journey. And when the last song reminds us, in the end all and everything is in order. And yes, my friends, is really tooif not …
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