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- Summary: The Icelandic band's 1997 debut album received its first international release in 2004.
- Record Label: One Little Indian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 6 out of 12
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Mixed: 6 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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When layers of choir-boy vocals are added to the group's singing ("Hun Joro"), when feeble, naturalistic sounds are used in questing improvisations ("Sigur Ros"), or when acoustic instruments coalesce with a swath of electronics ("Dogun"), you'll find your jaw on the floor, too, stunned as ever.
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It's a long, occasionally ponderous listen... but it's an impressive and rewarding journey that moves between prog, space-rock and subdural transmissions in ancient alien tongues.
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Based on pure sound, Von is just as much of a treat as the acclaimed follow-up.
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Hints at future sonic depths: swirling patterns, impressive musicianship and ambitious ideologies.
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Von is, in a sense, an ultrasound view of the unborn Sigur Rós - it’s almost fetal, an abstracted and vague representation of what would come later.
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Von is neither that bad nor that good. It is definitely not a clunker, and despite its rough-edged and misplaced ambition it succeeds quite grandly at times.
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Under The RadarThey failed handily on this effort, but as we all know by now, it was only a matter of time before they got it right. [#8, p.112]
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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TomBiswrongOct 25, 2006
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TomBJul 15, 2006
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JuliaAFeb 14, 2007
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BearlyyBJan 19, 2006This is like listening to the wind. Agaetis Byrjun is amazing.
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