new sigur rós is f'ing brilliant. definitely their best since agaetis byrjun (and i'm saying this as a huge proponent of all their albums)... possibly their best ever.
key tracks: "ára bátur," "straumnes," and "festival," the latter of which might be the apotheosis of what a sigur rós song is supposed to be.
i guess what works so well is that they play to their strengths over and over—crescendos, wild strings, ecstatic vocals, gentle piano chords, and so on. the opening track, "gobbledigook," is sort of sigur-rós-by-way-of-animal-collective, but the rest of the LP is just so... them!
this isn't a music blog, btw.
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