REVIEW: 05 Nov 2007
Sigur Ros’ songs have a tendency to go on way too long, but the group’s peaks are such that we must cherish them, flaws and all.
REVIEW: 02 Dec 2005
Silencing a 1200-strong audience with little more than a glockenspiel is certainly no mean feat, but that’s the sort of band that Sigur Rós are.
REVIEW: 12 Sep 2005
Takk, their major label debut, comes across almost as conventional. There are proper songs! With names, and lyrics – conveyed in Icelandic yet recognizably...
NEWS: 26 Jul 2005
Fans disappointed at Sigur Ros's recent omission of Ireland on their recent tour will no doubt be pleased to learn that they're coming back over to make amends.
REVIEW: 01 Jul 2004
This may be their first foray onto a major label, but Babatikidido is still a typically unconventional project.. As the soundtrack to avant-garde...
REVIEW: 18 Nov 2002
They are the ultimate life-is-a-movie soundtrack, perfect for self-mythologizing and elevating the humdrum ho-hum of the ’burbs and the boonies into the...
INTERVIEW: 12 Nov 2002
Sigur Rós’ Georg Holm explains why the Icelandic outfit’s latest release is untitled and contains no track listings or song titles whatever
NEWS: 19 Jul 2002
Glacial slo-core guitar-bowers Sigur Ros cancel Galway Arts Festival appearance... in order to finish new album (!) in time for autumn release. Fair enough so
NEWS: 17 May 2002
Blown away by Low in Christchurch Cathedral? Check out this year's Galway Arts Festival, where Sigur Ros (among several very exciting but unconfirmed others)...
REVIEW: 10 May 2001
SIGUR RÓS
Temple Theatre, Dublin
REVIEW: 03 Aug 2000
"AURORA BOREALIS/The icy sky at night."
Neil Young's opening lines from Pocahontas could've been written to evoke the first international release...
REVIEW: 15 Feb 2001
The soundtrack to Icelandic director Einar Mar Gudmundsson's movie Englar alheimsins (Angels Of The Universe) was predominantly composed and aranged by...
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