""Untitled" is certainly the best song"
- @Antonio-Pedro
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"If you ask me, this is their best. It's less focused on being a "songs" album and is more focused on being an experience. The first couple (or five) times you hear it, it's hard to appreciate. The tracks are long and kind of muddle together after awhile. But after more listens, each piano note and drum beat starts to stand out. It's an album that's completely devoid of any context or background, one that it's possible to step into and experience anew each time. The perfect album for falling asleep"
- @babyBlueSedan (Rating: 80/100)
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DommeDamianImperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addictionProfile where the flowers grow.
My clearest memory with any of these pieces is when I graduated high school and during the week, every day was a party at a different classmate's place. I had just moved away from Copenhagen, which meant I was the only one in the class not living in the capital anymore. For every get-together, I took the train at night and rode my bike home. One night, I accidentally took the wrong way, and I ended up getting on my bike at first, at early morning. I had my iPod at shuffle, and once I got a clear view of the colorful sunrise, Untitled 3 came on. Rarely have a song connected with me so positively. Sigur Rós is a band that makes some indisputably beautiful and heavenly music. The group's sonic landscape is both introvert, pastoral, breathy, whimsical and totally uncommercial. And this record is ()ne of the most selfless albums in existence. Literally, all the songs are untitled, and the booklet is empty pages. This album could mean anything. I don't understand what he's saying and I shouldn't, it's about feeling the spiritual and unknown dialect and then making up the meaning yerself. The hypnotic "eu sire lo", repeated through different delightful delicate melodies throughout the record, is truly something to behold - Sigur Ros took the Smiths' quote for granted. I've reflected if I should tell a story but I got three reasons not to: I don't wanna force a particular story upon myself by writing it here, I don't wanna force a particular story upon any reader, and I never really got a full one mainly cause the music takes me away fully. Everytime I try to come up with a story told through the emotional expression hidden in the music's deep ocean, something about the next track takes it sideways. Although 2 feels like the feeling of every beautiful scenery on earth was combined into 1 and transformed into audio. It's so stupendous in its composition, and raw melancholia. This album has such an inexpressible sadness to it for me. My stomach drops when I hear the opening notes. Feels like falling forever into a liminal space filled with a suffocating mist of depression. Legit gives me suicidal thoughts but it’s so beautiful and so peaceful, so warm and cold at the same time. And then there’s the last two songs, which just swallow me whole. It single-handedly made me want to meditate more often, and I feel more intellectual by doing it. So in that regard: this album has increased my intellectuality and independent part of myself. Technically, I am meditating, elevating, and levitating just by spinning it. Parentheses is very close to its predecessor, and Sigur Rós has spent the three years since the last release to refine the instruments rather than to renew or reinvent their style. These are very pompous tones that seem to be created for a giant cathedral rather than a venue or festival tent, and which are more Bach than rock music. It's labelled as post-rock and I semi-see why. If Talk Talk is the jazz of post-rock, Spiderland the punk, Lift Yr Skinny Fists the ambient, Mogwai the prog, Ghetto Beats the avant-garde, then Sigur Ros is the classical part and Parentheses is their mystical transcendental peak. Even the penultimate track, the most unpredictable one, feels like an endless float to some destiny.
Tones that grow from the near-personal space around Jonsi's voice and grow into a wordless longing and finales. A record of crisp timelessness and at once personal and cosmic, it wears its heart on its sleeve and massages the listener's. Sigur Rós' music on Parentheses is like a white piece of paper, a blank canvas or a trash can where you can pour your emotions yourself. An empty space capsule that sends the listener’s desires and longings to nirvana. _________________ My Top 100 :
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