Sorry about taking so long to comment here............
Posted by Sordidman (A) on July 25, 2008 at 14:51:23
In Reply to:
RE: Content. posted by RC Daniel
on July 16, 2008 at 21:40:27:
I wanted to...
But honestly, I don't know what to say about your take here.
I think that it's a fine line sometimes between being too affected and precious and preening and pretentious and being bloody f$#King amazing.
So, I guess that with me: Sigur is the latter. What makes them the latter is that they sound like no one else with that bowed electric guitar builds. With that crazy, intense, and powerful drumming. With all of that spaciousness, that slowly brings instruments in, and really builds tension and drama... (a little like our JD discussion over in rock). And of course, the nonsensical, haunting, vocals....
The best way that I can say it, and it's true with Joy Division too, is that Sigur Ros are other-worldly... they are so far outside, that they have an immediate and real appeal to me in a way that no other working band has.
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