Sigur Rós
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This Week's Best New Band is... SIGUR RÓS
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 10 November 1999
STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL SOUNDSCAPES ...
Sigur Ros: The Band at the Edge of the World
Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Face, December 1999
Sigur Ros have a singer who sounds like a whale. Their lyrics are in a secret language. And they want to perfume the world with ...
Sigur Rós: Haskolabio, Reykjavik, Iceland
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 1 December 1999
IT'S A sound that feels like it's been travelling through the universe for a million long, lonely years. It starts somewhere in the middle distance, ...
Sigur Ros: Iceland's Magical Visionaries
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 8 January 2000
ASK PARENTS on Iceland's northernmost shore, and they'll say the kids are alright when Sigur Ros arrive. Their trademark mix of gently persuasive confidence, humble ...
Desolation Angels: Icelandic music
Report and Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, January 2001
Spearheaded by Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and the Kitchen Motors collective, Iceland’s hardy children of nature are proving stubbornly resistant to the World Rock ...
Sigur Ros: So good they make you vomit
Report and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Observer, 15 April 2001
ON THE OTHER side of the door is a sprawling south London estate gathered round an old factory turned business park, as oppressive an environment ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2001
IF IT WASN'T quite the summer garden party it should have been, Radiohead's big homecoming bash at Oxford's South Park was mostly (or at least ...
Sigur Rós: Cool Band from a Cool Place
Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 10 2002
THE MUSIC OF Iceland has a presence on the world stage that far outstrips its influence as a country, a phenomenon of which the country's ...
Sigur Ros & Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson: Odin's Raven Magic
Preview by John Lewis, Barbican show programme, 21 April 2002
• Sigur Ros, Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson and Steindor Andersen with the London Sinfonietta and members of The Sixteen Choir • Music composed by Sigur Ros and ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2002
YOU OFTEN hear the invisible when you go to see Sigur Ros live. As the bowed white noise fades into an eerie serenity or the ...
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, November 2002
A trip to Iceland unlocks the secrets of the ages to Michael Goldberg ...
Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, March 2003
Do you suffer from skammdegispunglyndi? For many Icelanders, the cure for this brand of wintertime depression — in addition to drinking — is making weird ...
Sigur Rós: Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 26 March 2003
THERE IS A BEE GEES song that goes, "I started a joke which started the whole world crying." This lyric highlights one of two overriding ...
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 21 August 2005
A ROBE-FREE polyphonic spree, a depoliticised Godspeed! You Black Emperor, a less unforgivably insipid Talk Talk, Mogwai with the heavy metal taken out, the Cocteau ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 28 August 2005
SIGUR ROS aren't big on putting what they do into words: this, after all, is the band who called their most recent album ( ), ...
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, October 2005
Proof that there's an Icelandic word for uplift — and we can't pronounce it ...
Sigur Rós: Why We're Mesmerised By The Hypnotic Icelandic Band
Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 30 January 2009
EACH WEEK, along with the basic album and singles sales charts, there are myriad other charts published that track the diverse fortunes of the music ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2012
IF THE RELEASE of Sigur Rós' last studio album, Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, led people to fear that the band's days crafting ...
Sigur Ros: Valtari (Parlophone)
Review by John Lewis, Metro, May 2012
WHEN LEAD singer Jónsi Birgisson apologised that Sigur Rós's recent albums had been "too joyous, too festive", he must have momentarily convinced himself that he ...
Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 19 May 2012
SIGUR ROS vanished four years ago. In their absence the band who are, after Bjork, Iceland's biggest musical export, saw their atmospheric music, with singer ...
After nine years, Sigur Rós return to hit the ground running for LP eight
Report by Martin Aston, MOJO, May 2022
Fact sheet Title: TBC Due: Autumn 2022 Production: band/Birgir Jón Birgisson Songs: TBC The Buzz: "When we started, we thought, Wouldn't it be nice to do ...
see also Jónsi
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