Sigur Rós

"Sigur Rós are a band like no other. Forging a totally individual path, disconnected from the pop mainstream, they have nonetheless been embraced by critics, public and the glitterati alike. It’s not every day that an album of haunting post-rock sung in Icelandic is voted best new album in America but Ágætis Byrjún is no ordinary album, and Sigur Rós are no ordinary band. Attempts to describe their music and the feelings it evokes often reach for comparisons with the landscape of their Icelandic homeland – elemental, profoundly beautiful, effervescent, luminescent - the list goes on and on, and yet the band seem to have nothing quite so specific or local in mind. Their music, they say, is simply what happens when they play together – no more, no less. Or perhaps there’s something running deeper in them, and us, than they know."

Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása (Good Weather For Air Strikes)

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Ég læt mig líða áfram

í gegnum hausinn

hugsa hálfa leið

afturábak

Sé sjálfan mig syngja fagnaðarerindið

sem við sömdum saman

Við áttum okkur draum

áttum allt

við riðum heimsendi

við riðum leitandi

klifruðum skýjakljúfa

sem síðar sprungu upp

friðurinn úti

ég lek jafnvægi

dett niður

alger þögnekkert svar

En það besta sem guð hefur skapað

er nýr dagur.