First post and I'm talking going to be the voice of dissent. After having listened to this album twice, I found it to be mediocre through and through. The songs simply aren't particularly memorable. Accessible this album certainly is, but at the cost of the Sigur Rós sound. No vast sweeps of orchestra and bowed guitar, Jonsí's voice soaring above. No trully uplifting or trully down-trodding tracks. It isn't a bad album; simply a forgetable one.
Von was a shame. They took so long recording it that by the time they realised how different each song was to the original intent, they had but two options; release now or scrap and start over. Some of the songs have been done for other albums, so one can hear the tremendous potential of the album. I wish they'd do it again.
Ágætis byrjun is simply fantastic. No more need be said.
( ) is very different and astonishingly wonderful.
Takk.... is Ágætis byrjun take two. If not quite as good, well, little could hope to be it's equal.
I only wish that every thing weren't so LOUD. Cripes, hearing a penny-whistle solo causes me to turn down the volume such that I can hear nothing else. Pfui.
