Sigur Rós

[Ms Harmless]

Sigur Ros make music that sounds like what water feels like

[psychobain]

Its 2005 again

[Ms Harmless]

I love this album more and more, the weather is hot here at the moment and I'm blasting it while cleaning out my bird's cage, it's wonderful; the subtle differences and nuances in those latter tracks begins to emerge

I'd say it's kind of Enya-esque in places

[Ms Harmless]

Átta makes a lovely double-bill with Valtari

warm land / cold sea

[Stickman]

turns out I"ve been saying Ros incorrectly this whole time.

[Chris_H_2]

this album is a gift that keeps on giving

[Ms Harmless]

Andrá is my favourite song on the album and this video emotionally destroyed me

[Ms Harmless]

anyone know of a site that has the lyrics / translations for Átta?

[AndySlash]

this is awesome and it definitely got some waterworks bubbling up.

a few weeks ago i was looking on ticketbastard to see if there were better seats for the upcoming show here than the ones i had bought, which were along the sides of the balcony and likely a slightly obstructed view given how many people will probably be on stage. sure enough, there were better tix- a pair in the front row. they were standard (non-reseller) tix but platinum priced at $275/ea before fees (~$320/ea after). reseller tix on and around the floor were averaging about the same price (and much higher the closer to the stage you got), and the seats directly behind the ones i already had were being resold for about $125 above the average price, too. so i said fuck it and bought the front row seats and put up my initial seats for about $120 more than what i paid total, but still below the average of other available reseller tix, and they sold within a couple weeks. after all was said and done, i essentially got the front row seats for $266/ea after fees, "saving" about $60/ea from the platinum price.

maybe i could have done even better, and i definitely feel dirty and gross for 1) buying platinum priced seats and 2) reselling my initial tix for above cost. but if i didn't buy them then, i don't think i would have had this opportunity again. god damn i am looking forward to seeing this show from the front fucking row, especially after hearing this record. i've been close for a jonsi solo show, but never sigur ros, so this will be special. expensive, but special. can't wait.

[Jorge]

You should feel gross!

[AndySlash]

the stank is palpable

[Ms Harmless]

I just read "I've been close for a Jonsi solo show" and got excited in my volcanic nether regions

[Ms Harmless]

I've crushed hard for that little elf for a long time

[contamination]

anyone know of a site that has the lyrics / translations for Átta?

Don't they sing in a made up language?

[Jorge]

They only did that for an album or two I think

[dad]

they'd like you to believe that.

[contamination]

Apparently at least some of the songs on the latest are also in made up language Hopelandic

It's also hard to decipher the words — whether they are in Icelandic, or what the group has sometimes called Hopelandic, a series of made-up nonsense syllables. But like opera, where you might not understand the native tongue, it's the music — the band's unerring way of writing melodies that tug at the heart — and Jónsi's expressive performance that conveys all that's needed. Another song in Hopelandic is "Klettur" (Cliff), which sports a lumbering, concussive beat that suddenly halts to allow the heavens to open in celestial light via huge keyboard pedal points and soaring strings.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/11818977 ... tta-review

[Jorge]

Ah, I thought they'd completely abandoned that

[Chris_H_2]

idiot

[Jorge]

Wow