() by Sigur Ros

Pros: Not particuarly distracting.
Cons: Too long, too boring, lacks emotion, pretentious.

See. This is what I get when I follow the crowd whose praise is directed at what turns out to be a rather pompous utterly boring Icelandic band. In all honesty, the only other entity I know as coming out of that northern country is Bjork and of course...

Pros: Moody music that takes you to a place you've never been.
Cons: That place is sometimes dreary and frightening.

There's some complex concept in physics that has to do with a certain quantity that cannot be accurately measured. Something to do with the atoms or quarks or whatever - the value is changed by the very act of measuring. Now I'm no Heisenberg, but I ...

Pros: well... it's pretty decent background music
Cons: boring, overlong, monotonous, uninteresting, bland, should i go on?

The world’s a confusing place, isn’t it? (I promise that heretofore, I will never use another obvious comment to start a review off. I swear on it… honest.) But really… for almost everything on God’s green Earth, some aspect of it is mind-boggling. Take ...

Pros: ummm, i guess its biggest 'pro' would be that it doesn't have any 'cons'
Cons: don't apply in this case.

I really wanted to write a review of this album right after I heard it for the first time, but for once, I actually showed restraint. I decided to listen to it over and over - to immerse myself in it (for that is truly the only way to describe what...

Pros: Sonic, often beautiful, and seamless
Cons: Gimmicky, often repetitive, and atonal

"It's PoMo!!"
[confused stares]
"You know, PostModern!"
[awkward stares]
"Alright, alright, wierd for the sake of wierd."
-With apologies to The Simpsons

Maybe you've seen it in the store,...

Pros: An Excellent Album from Sigur Ros.
Cons: At Times, Drags & It Can Be Boring for Some Listeners.

In 2001, the world got to know the Iceland experimental rock band Sigur Ros and their 1999 album “Agaetis Byrjun”. In that year, the Icelandic quartet drew critical acclaim for their dense and experimental approach to art-rock with Icelandic...

Pros: A rose as it thrives amidst a sea of thorns.
Cons: Every rose will wilt and die with its season.

Contemporary rock has descended into a bleak morass wherein album after album seem to present only more of the same single, tired and played-out theme. Bands are mere carbon copies of their predecessors, everyone sounds like everyone else, everyone sings...

Pros: Just about everything.
Cons: Basically the same line is repeated throughout the album, but that doesn't really matter.

This album is truly a masterpiece from the Icelandic quartet Sigur Ros. Never before have I heard anything like the majestic and beautiful sounds that this album bring forth (bar Agætis Byrjun) The album packaging is neat, really. Sure, no ...

Pros: Words cannot describe the spellbinding beauty of this music.
Cons: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

In 2001 the world was introduced to a band that all of Iceland had known about for a year already. That band was Sigur Ros, and their second album, (the first to be released outside of Iceland) Agaetis Byrjun was so stunningly, heartbreakingly...

Pros: One of the best album's of the year 2002
Cons: No titles to refer to the songs by

Where is one to start with a group like Sigur Ros? Just the fact that the band, whose name translates as "Victory Rose," is discovering American consumption for their material is miraculous. In a place where cheesy pop and monotonous beats fill the...

Pros: Amazingly beautiful, haunting and powerful. Does not repeat previous effort.
Cons: None to speak of, really.

Having lived with this recording for a little while, now, I'm at a loss as to where to begin reviewing it. There are so many places I could start, so many ways I might approach the work. In the end, it would all come to the same place....

So,...

Pros: Absolutely beautiful
Cons: Absolutely beautiful

(I am reviewing a show of their from their tour of this album.)

I have only one intelligible thing to say about this: this was the best show I've even seen in my life, bar none. If you can see this band: do. Period.

Now that I've...

Pros: One word: Beautiful
Cons: Some people will hate that he sings the same words over and over.

It's really hard to review this album track by track, because all the tracks float into each other and I have never listened to particular tracks of this CD, I listen to it from the beginning to the end.

To me () is like a symphony that needs...

Pros: Beautifully written soundscapes, stirring and emotional
Cons: Monotonous lyrics, over-conceptual packaging

This is one of the more stirring and moving albums I have heard in a long time. Sigur Ros have taken many of the ideas from the early 90's slowcore scene of the UK and taken a step or two back, approached the genre with a less 'in-your-face' sound,...

Pros: enriches your life just to listen to it.
Cons: may be painfully beautiful. may produce painfully strong emotional effects.

() - What can I say? It's a beautiful, magnificent, brilliant work of art. 8 Untitled tracks of 'E ...