But Sigur Ros are making art on several more levels than most music.
But if a 45 year old man is going to be a fan of any band, I'd say I do well to love Sigur Ros so much. It would be an ideal introduction to the band for anyone who hasn't heard them.)Ĭall me a hardcore fan, I guess that's what I am. (Update, 12.19.07.the film "Heima" is incredible. There is absolutely no chance that I will be disappointed in it. Today I shall very likely watch the film, "Heima". It's a damned good song and one that put them on the map stateside, but the group has gone on to make music that it so much better (IMHO).
You can tell that he's immersed in the music to the point where there is nothing else.Īnd get this.NO "SVEN-G-ENGLAR"!!!! It's not that I don't like that song enough.I do.but it's just been used too much, in films (it added a nice touch to "VanillaSky"), tv shows (though I don't watch tv enough to give examples of which shows, but seem to recall hearing it as I channel surfed one day) and the like. At the part towards the end when the music changes from mysterious to joyful he launches into some unexpected high notes that send shivers down the spine. They play it at an outdoor show with a few hunded in the audience, sitting on the grass. I've already mentioned "Olsen Olsen", which is quickly becomming one of my all-time favorite Sigur Ros songs. The version here of "Se Lest" is amazing, with a small marching band showing up toward the end, emerging from behind the stage, marching into the audience and on out of the hall, it's relative cacaphony giving way to the light, airy soundscape of the string quartet, who continue to play the fragile strains the band so brusquely disrupted. There are just enough of the "concert" scenes to satisfy.
It will probably hold up to repeated viewings better than the usual, plus it shows just how "one-of-a-kind" this band is and always has been. I would have liked a typical set of on-stage concert performances but in the long run I think I'll come to appreciate what they've done here moreso. All of the songs are interspersed with gorgeous shots of Iceland, it's people, it's locales, it's uniqueness, it's beauty. Why not? Well, I found out when I bought it that there was a second disc included with over 2 hours of performances!!! Some are standard live shows ("Glosoli", "Se Lest", an absolutely stunning version of "Olsen Olsen", etc.) but there are also scenes of the band playing in the studio, in an open field, in an empty auditorium, etc. I got it on Saturday and I haven't even watched the main documentary that gives the film it's title. "Heima" is, for me, a must-have kind of thing. Just about everything Sigur Ros has ever released is at the top of my list of "greatest music EVER". This is something I've wanted BADLY since first learning of it. For now I am just overjoyed to have gotten the Sigur Ros DVD "Heima". Though I still want that sweet pair of Bose headphones I saw at Target a few months ago, I am more than content to wait for those. I received my Christmas present early this year. Has anyone heard of them? Four people?” He dedicates Recovery to “anyone that’s ever been through a pile of shit in their life”.CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE-AGED SIGUR ROS OBSESSIVE He talks about the album’s duet with Adam Lazzara, singer of emo types Taking Back Sunday, “my favourite band of all time.
He explains that people will know his album title “from these big fuckin’ letters behind me” – the ones that spell out Y-O-U. But the 31-year-old is refreshingly unfiltered and, while his mouth has got him into trouble before and perhaps will again, his unfettered humanity is rather endearing.
“Let me see those hands” Manchester are “the best crowd ever”, and so on. He references it here, in raps about mental health, but otherwise the show takes few chances, leaning on brash pop production and arena rock cliche. Arthur’s imminent third album, You, positions the chastened Middlesbrough-born former foster-care child and teenage indie kid as a big-lunged, retro-soul trouble man. Tonight, they greet him with massed screaming. However, after his mea culpa and a period of reflection, his devoted – mostly female – fanbase do not appear to have wavered. After winning the show in 2012, and producing a mega-hit in Impossible, his subsequent public meltdown included the release of a homophobic diss track, being dropped by his record company, issues with drink and drugs, and becoming the victim of a glass attack in Redcar. J ames Arthur certainly can’t be accused of following the typical career path of an X Factor star.