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| Missing image Sigurros().jpg Album Cover | ||
| CD Album by Sigur Rós | ||
| Released | 2002 October 28 | |
| Recorded | Sundlaugin Studio | |
| Genre | Post-rock | |
| Length | 71 min 10 s | |
| Record label | Smekkleysa Records | |
| Producers | Sigur Rós | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| AMG (http://www.allmusic.com/) | 4 stars out of 5 | Link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5791CDC4CAF7420F6B13E48DFB167F729D94EFB87126E495AD1A9214AD85F22D959F695C8AEFF6AB679AFFA62AC500AD5C0EA50ECBC1B&sql=10:4srj284l055a) |
| Sigur Rós Chronology | ||
| Ágætis byrjun (1999) | ( ) (2002) | ??? |
- For the short film of the same title, see ( ).
( ) is the 2002 album-release from Icelandic band Sigur Rós, featuring eight unnamed songs. This third album is divided into two parts: The first four songs are more "light and optimistic", while the last four songs are "bleaker and more melancholic". The two halves are divided by a 40 second silence.
The album's vocals are recorded in a created language the band calls "Hopelandic," which consists of meaningless syllables and resembles scat singing. Most of the syllable-strings sung by vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson are repeated many times throughout each song, and often throughout the whole album.
Interestingly, many of these Hopelandic "phrases" resemble English words and phrases (for example, "you sigh," "you sold," "you sign no more," "you sigh so long") leading many listeners to interpret them as such, thus inventing their own meaning. It is unclear whether this effect was intentional, but for a while after the album's release the band's web site featured a multimedia application that played tracks from the album while displaying various hypothetical lyrics suggested by fans. The album's packaging also included a 12-page booklet of blank pages, on which fans were invited to draw or write their own interpretations of the music.
Track listing
- "untitled" - 6:38 ("Vaka" [Wake])
- "untitled" - 7:33 ("Fyrsta" [First])
- "untitled" - 6:33 ("Samskeyti" [Joint])
- "untitled" - 6:56 ("Njósnavélin" [The Spy Machine], aka "The Nothing Song")
- "untitled" - 9:57 ("Álafoss")
- "untitled" - 8:48 ("E-bow")
- "untitled" - 13:00 ("Dauðalagið" [The Death Song])
- "untitled" - 11:45 ("Popplagið" [The Pop Song])
- All tracks written by Sigur Rós
Personnel
- Jón Þór Birgisson - voice, guitar, keyboards
- Kjartan Sveinsson - keyboards, guitar
- Georg Hólm - bass, keyboards, glockenspiel
- Orri Páll Dýrason - drums, keyboards
- María Huld Markan - violin
- Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir - violin
- Ólöf Júlía Kjartansdóttir - viola
- Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir - cello
External links
- Album samples (http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/disco/parenth.html)
- Eighteen seconds before sunrise - the official Sigur Rós news source (http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk)