★★★★★
Everyone listens to music for different reasons. Whether it be to feel, be entertained, experience storytelling in audio form, or an amalgam of all three, these reasons exhibit how this form of art also happens to be one of the most versatile out of the many forms of art. All forms of art are usually meant to be ways to express ourselves in ways that words often can't...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2015-02-26
★★★★★
Sigur Ros is one of those rare bands that distinguish themselves by sounding like absolutely no one else. It's refreshing given that at any particular point in time there are hoards of bands that wear influences on their sleeve and cash in on very particular and popular sounds. We are lucky to have a new album from this now iconic band, especially given all the rumors that they had broken up...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-08-08
★★★★★
Sigur Ros
Kveikur
[XL Recordings; 2013]
By Brendan Frank ; July 29, 2013
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At this point in their career, any joke that can be made at Sigur Rós' expense has already been made. And there are a lot of them. But "pretentious new age treacle" is a much harder argument to push for when you're in the midst of such transportive music...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-07-30
★★★★★
Jónsi, Sigur Rós' lead singer/guitarist is, somewhat notoriously, a fan of heavy metal music. There's an enormous disconnect between his band and his solo work and, say, Metallica, so it has lead me to a theory about Sigur Rós. An unverified, difficult-to-support theory, but here it is regardless: When Jónsi formed the band (alongside bassist Georg Hólm and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson, who left the band recently) he actually wanted to make metal but, because of the innate beauty of his voice, he...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-07-03
★★★★★
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Sigur Rós - KveikurSigur Rós - KveikurRelease Date: June 18, 2013
Record Label: XL Recordings
Something eerily close to the crackle of a geiger counter is one of the first sounds on the latest Sigur Rós record Kveikur, found within the sound of some fast-gathering storm that is about to visit destruction on the landscape...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-07-02
★★★★★
Something eerily close to the crackle of a geiger counter is one of the first sounds on the latest Sigur Rós record Kveikur, found within the sound of some fast-gathering storm that is about to visit destruction on the landscape. This is surprising at first, since Sigur Rós had seemed content to draw their albums up from the same chilly, placid well for over a decade. But your surprise fades quickly, or is at least distracted by the arrival of the lurching, heavy "Brennistein...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-01
★★★★★
In fairness to Sigur Rós, they have self-awareness on their side. In some ways, the BBC's use of 'Hoppípolla' on their Planet Earth series gifted them a double-edged sword, for while it brought the band's work to the attention of a far wider audience than an Icelandic post-rock group may have previously hoped, it also forged an almost unbreakable linkage between their expansive compositions and biome-conquering footage of freshly fallen drifts crowning Alpine crests or shoals of rainbowfish...
- thequietus.com
2013-07-05
★★★★★
01. It's abundantly clear that no critic really knows how to write about Sigur Rós. I don't mean to rag on my colleagues; I'm "stuck in the same boat," so to speak. 02. Last year, I wrote about Valtari. I was sick and sad and stuck in Chicago. My room was too warm. Writing was, for once, a shoddy reprieve. Frankly, there were too many pieces that I was trying to pick up at once and too few words to contain them...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
The last offering from the Icelandic soundscape kings, 2012's Valtari, was a deep, sonic bath: huge swells of keyboards and vast stretches of what was more like sound imprints than actual songs. Devoid of any clear structure it meandered, content to scale dizzying, elfin heights without caring whether you were along for the ride. Now things are a little different. Keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson left the band and they also hooked up with a major label...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-06-21