| Me su i eyrum vi spilum endalaust | 
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| Artist: Sigur Ros
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
EAN: 5099922872821
ASIN: B0019ZMN5A
Release Date: June 23, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Business as Usual June 25, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Another great album from Sigur Ros. There is a shock! This band can do no wrong! From the whimsical almost Arcade Fireish start with the chirpy "Gobbledigook" to the beautiful "Inni mer syngur vitleysingur". The mood changes to the elegant sound on "Godan daginn". From the frenetic sound of the first two tracks this calms things down.
There is almost a churchlike quality to some of these tracks as if they were being recorded in a church. Jonsi'a voice having the angelic quality.
Many have described this album as being Sigur Ros moving forward and I would have to agree. You cannot stay put with what you know will sell!
You can tell many of the tracks are Sigur Ros due to their beauty but some you may not realise like "Gobbledigook".
I would not say it is their finest work but it will take an awful lot to better "Takk" and "Agaetis Byrjun".
All in very worthwhile purchase and my CD does not hiss! Just buzzes!!
 New batteries June 24, 2008
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
Sigur Ros's astonishing 1999 LP, "Agaetis Byrjun", was unreplicable. In the years since, they've made catchier songs and noisier songs; but nothing quite matches the otherworldly ambience of their early masterpiece. "Me su i eyrum vi spilum endalaust" marks a change of direction. In short, it's the first time Sigur Ros have sounded like a band, rather than a school of whales at the bottom of a fjord.
The first four songs are fresh, sunkissed, acoustic, playful: you'd hardly believe it's still Sigur Ros, but it all works beautifully. The message is clear: this is a fun album, a soundtrack for summer, for festivals, for beaches, for running naked across roads. After this brilliant opening, the album loses momentum a little (in particular, "Ara batur" is overlong and overblown, with choirs and orchestras battling with the vocals for space in your ears), but it's all done with enough verve to keep your finger away from the skip button. "Me su" is by far Sigur Ros's most accessible record, and is a fine place for newcomers to start.
The bottom line is that "Me su" is good news: the successful sonic evolution of one of the most consistently interesting bands in the world today.
Hiss on the CD!? June 23, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Brilliant album. Ive been listening to it for a few weeks now via the sigur ros website, but today i bought it, twice!
Reason is, the first one had quite a noticeable hiss in the background, like you used to get on a dirty record. It was most noticeable on the intro to track 3. I then bought a second copy, thinkin this was just a one off bad cd, this time from ASDA (first time from HMV) and the same hiss is present throughout the album. This is very disappointing, and now I'm not sure what to do, probably will wait for a few weeks, until this bad batch has been taken off the shelves.
Anyone else had this problem?
Music From Heaven.... June 23, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Do not listen to those negative feedbacks ! This is another great album from the greatest band in the world right now. I really love and enjoy every minuites in this album! You should listen to this album before you go to bed as they will start from the joyful songs and slow it down from track 5 to the last song to send you to sleep with a nice dream.
P.S. "Ara Batur" is anothere epic song from Sigur Ros !
 Summertime in Iceland June 21, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Sigur Ros have always ploughed their own furrow, creating soundscapes imbued with the cold and unworldly atmosphere of their native Iceland. With heavy reverb and the unmistakable falsetto of lead singer 'Jonsi' Birgisson the band have always made a virtue of the slow burner, the track which seems to take an age to develop, and have since found their music used in everything from trailers for the BBC's Planet Earth series to Queer as Folk. But that kind of amorphous, post-rock comes with its own problems. How to develop? The invention of a nonsense language, Hopelandic, on 2002's enigmatically titled () led to a repetitive album of, well, nonsense and with the follow up, Takk, things seemed to be stagnating. So the cover of their new album (trans: With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly) bodes well. Clothes discarded, with a definite summery tinge to the picture we have people streaking across a road and something tells me they didn't stop, look and listen.
The fantastically titled Gobbledigook gets us under way with acoustic guitars and hand claps reminiscent of flamenco, spurred along by thumping drums. It's a vigorous start which is continued by the glorious piano led Inni mer syngur vitleysingur (Within me sings a lunatic). This track is the one illustrated best by the album's cover, filled with explosive energy and a sunshine melody, easily the best track on here. A bit of research reveals the lyrics to be 'My best friend, whatever may happen/I swallow a tear and breathe in your hair/Making a ruckus embracing, we cry/When we meet, when we kiss/Lips burning, holding hands/I see you awake, I see you naked/Inside me sings a lunatic.' Or something like that. It's followed by the beautiful Goan daginn (Good day) which shows Birgisson's voice in all its glory. Vi spilum endalaust (We Play Endlessly) actually sounds more like a conventional indie-pop song, think Polyphonic Spree, with more of that positive sounding energy. The mammoth Festival is one of those slow burners, relying on an almost hymnal vocal for its first half before a thumping bass guitar starts the build into a crescendo which finally gets there.
It's at this halfway point that the album seems to lose all of that momentum and energy. The next few tracks are pretty enough but it ceases being the mould breaking album it could have been. Ara batur enlists the services of a boys choir and 67 piece orchestra but it only succeeds in highlighting the relative weakness of Birgisson's voice. Even the first foray into English lyrics isn't enough to get excited about (I want him to know/What I have done/I want him to know/It's bad). It's not a bad album but it's hard to imagine it replacing any of their others in your affection. It'll be interesting to see which tracks get picked by the advertisers.
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