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| Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sigur Ros
Label: XL Recordings
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 409
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40364
UPC: 634904036423
EAN: 0634904036423
ASIN: B001ACY8D2
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 An ad for this album in the New Yorker July 16, 2008
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
An ad for the album in the New Yorker, with nudes running across a country road on the cover, caught my eye. I found myself trying to translate the
words on the cover, and I couldn't even figure out the language. Even the script was unusual. It would be weeks before release date but I got to hear this incredibly powerful, yet simple and awesome music, for the first time on the internet, and it was love at first hearing. New to the computer, it was
also the first album purchase via the net. The music was like nothing
I've heard in my seventy seven years. I can't get over that I am hooked on what I thought would be essentially music for young people. This music is for all ages. Songs five, six, and seven are staggeringly beautiful and give me
horripilations and exaltation ever time I hear it. I have not yet listened to other works of Sigur Ros's. But this album contains music that reaches agelessness; stark, brilliant, spellbinding.
For some reason, the DVD would not play on my music system in the one room, but did on another system in the kitchen, and played on my Mac Pro,
where I downloaded it, and will transfer it to the160MG iPod, as soon as I learn how.
 zzzzz. . . . . September 25, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Quite boring. I'm new to Sigur Ros, so I'm not sure what everyone is talking about with the change to their sound and being more stripped down. This is so stripped down as to be boring. One of my few album purchase regrets and one where reviewers I normally find reliable got it wrong. If you're new to Sigur Ros and are wondering what the hype is about, save your money and skip this album.
Spankin Whaty What What? October 27, 2008
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
If i spoke Iclandic this may sound better, but since I don't it just sounds silly. They really sound like The Samples, remember The Samples, they made all their good music in the early 90s... They sang in English.
And if the tune "Goan daginn" is about spanking then it really is silly.
Good Day!
 Deliciously pop. November 28, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date.
A happy album from Sigur Ros sounds like an unlikely concept.
The band specialise in music that is about as sunny as an Arctic winter - vast tundras of sound, dark with melancholy and loneliness. So their fifth album comes as a surprise.
The brisk opener, "Gobbledigook", all jumped-up drums and manic vocals, sets the tone: its poppy energy crackles on through much of this collection.
But then along comes a song that changes everything. From innocuous beginnings - Jonsi Birgisson's fragile voice, a lone piano - "Ara Batur" swells into an epic, swallowing a whole choir and the London Sinfonietta.
It is so ambitious and successful a piece of music that it threatens to overwhelm the surrounding tracks, making what came before seem frivolous and what follows, almost inconsequential.
No matter: for this one uplifting, goosebump-raising moment, it is worth buying the whole album.
 Making Music and/or Money June 24, 2008
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
Quite acceptable: after making exciting music the time came to make ordenary money... No problem with that but... A new - slightly over the - average pop group appeared. Good luck, guys!
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