Gah... this album's making me stay up late - -;;;... but yeah, it's awesome stuff... Catches your attention right from Svefn-g-Englar. Recommended for Radiohead fans. Now i'm attempting to sing along :(..

Absolutely mesmerising. You will stop what you're doing and listen. You have no choice.

Everything under the sun has already been said in praise of this record. It's incredible. blah blah blah "glacieral" blah blah blah "alien" blah blah blah "masterpiece"

The first album i've ever listened to, that made me realise maybe music wasn't just entertainment, maybe there was something more at work. This album changed my life!

this is a ridiculously good album. anyone looking for a breath taking direction on rock and shoegaze need look no further, sigur ros have forged one of the most beautiful sounds in modern music history, and even though it feels pretentious to say that, one listen of Svefn-G-Englar justifies any foolish overblown statements. definitely one of my favorite albums of this decade so far.

a good beginning it is...Jonsi,Georg,Kjartan,and Orri are really talented musicians.for some people they might sounded boring,but as for those who love them or trying to,each song got such a revelation of enlightenment.'Flugufrelsarinn' and 'Ny Batteri' are just two of their best cuts

Over-produced kitschy crap. This space music shite makes me vomit. Most embarassing high-pitch voice of all times.

I want to say this is embarassing spacey emotional post-shoegazer crap - but then for some reason I get embarassingly emotional everytime I listen to it. I don't know if it's Sigur Ros or my fault.

This album features outstanding musical skills, a masterpiece indeed.

i love this album! any idiot would know that this is a must have.

this cd will bring you to outer space, which is, you will discover, an extremely cold place. this record brings you to a white, good feeling. track four and six are unbelievable, they seem to have been made by the instruments themselves, and not by 20years old guys. experimental and simple as a kiss between boys in an open square. great.

Myself being an american, I could never imagine anything this amazingly original and breathtaking ever coming from the U.S. Astonishing!

superb

awesome

Great, but I agree with the reviews that say that there is, at times, overkill with the sonic, spacey electronics, etc. That is really the only thing keeping this from being a true masterpiece. As it is though, 90%(hence the 9) is gorgeous.

I HATE IT! I just can't stop listening to it!

Spellbinding emotion.

better than anyone on this music style, this cant be compared with radiohead this is pure!!!

This is a briliant album. Beautiful with unintelligble lyrics and shockingly good instumentation lending to undefinable mood music.

If only you could pronounce the title, you'd tell everyone you know to buy this album now. An uncommonly excellent recording.

This album is a stunning counterpart to its 10 year elder MBV's Loveless. Refined, beautiful, and thoroughly inventive.

This CD is definitely the best cd I've ever heard. Sigur Rós manages to make such beautiful music, I could hear it all day long!

This album, more than any other, will evoke spontaneous bursts of emotion in me. For example, I'll just break out in goosebumps at one point, or laugh aloud at another. Not to sound *too* stoner-turned-music-critic... but sometimes it feels very much *above* music. I love wading through it.

One of those albums where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing the first time you heard it. Quite astonishing.

There are no exceptions, Sigur Rós' "Àgætis Byrjun" is unlike anything I have ever heard before: it is beautiful, mystical, sensetive and down right excellent! There's noe one like Sigur Rós.

Dazzling. Perfect for soundtracking a stary night at the seaside.

First of all, if you find Radiohead dull, and any song longer than seven minutes long; you aren't gonna like this. Also, if you are a Blink-182 obsessive or a Metallica worshiper or a casual fan of Drop Dead Gorgeous, Enter Shikari and the like, you won't like this album. sorry, but this music is more than "tunes"...it's multi-dimensional, and I guess some people just won't ever get it.… Expand

this is one of my favorite and probablly will always be because of its beauty and original sound that sigur ros created. The use of the bow makes this album so much different then von or () because of its mellow and sleek noise it gives off. This album deserves its rating

This is brilliant. The best since OK computer. Wowie zowee!

so much depends in your status of "ego or humor" but however it´s kind a dramatic and pured emotions are discribe in this album.. pretty cool. i love it!

Not as good as their mastepiece Takk!!

A stunning, beautiful fusion of electronica, orchestral, rock and raw emotional singing. Highly recommended for anyone who loves music.

To all who posted "0"s, NO, Nickelback is NOT the greatest band in the world... XP~

Viõrar Vel Til Loftárasa is beautiful beyond words.

Painful. Vapid. Useless. Incompetent. Pointless. Worthless. Grotesque. Nauseating. Pathetic. Ridiculous. Coma-inducing. Mind-numbing. Utterly awful. Sheer torture. Causes cancer. Avoid at all costs. What else do you need to know? It's the Worst Album of All Time! This is to music what rust is to astonomy...

Life changing

This is by far Sigur Ros' best record. It is inspiring, optimistic, pessimistic and most of all beautiful. Reaching at great lengths to draw you in with it lush sound Agaetis Byrjun is a masterpiece that is already an ambient classic. A dreamy soundscape is thrown into you and the first mental objective you have is to fall asleep because the music has so much potential and it delivers it.

truly moving album, it evokes sonic textures that leave impressions in you mind that will have these songs ringing through your ears for weeks, perhaps months after listening. Flawless except for the Overdrawn Ny Batteri, if it didn't take so long to get to anything good in that song then this entire album would be perfection. a must buy.

Beautiful and ancient. New and utterly original. Trippy and grounded. Of this world and another...... This music is oxymoronic in more ways than a critique could ever validate.

im glad it was given the reviews it deserves. definitely one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time

Complete and utterly sublime from beginning to end. No other band can capture an atmospheric, mesmerizing, haunting yet beautiful sound like Sigur Ros has done with this album. It's not an easy listen but to the most patient, it is one of the most unique musical experiences you will ever have.

I think that many people may wonder how come a band from Iceland singing in Icelandic, a language that about 300.000 people around the world speak, instead of singing in English, the lingua franca of music nowadays, and made such a breakthrough in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. This album answers how they have done it. It is perhaps one of the greatest music albums that have been released in the last 15 years.… Expand

It's scary how drawn you get to the music. The enchanting feel of the strings along with Jonsi's eerie falsetto creates a musical beauty that will be near impossible for other bands to attempt. If you liked Kid A or Since I Left You, or In Rainbows this album is for you.

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Definitivamente el mejor álbum de su tiempo. Los sonidos tan extravagantes y bizarros en algunas de sus canciones es encantador. Este es el verdadero arte.… Expand