Festival - Sigor Ros
Given how consistent Sigur Ros have been about their aesthetic--dreamy, slow-building songs, billowy but densely detailed arrangements, reverberant swells of bowed electric guitar, keening falsetto vocals--their fifth album, Med Sud i Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL), didn't have to do much to break new ground. (The title translates to "With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly.") Most of the tracks last less than five minutes, and for the first time the band sings a tune in English; there are hard-hitting, up-tempo rhythms, and occasionally you can clearly hear a strummed acoustic guitar.
This is also the first record they've made outside Iceland: working with producer Flood, they finished the basic tracks in 11 days, not their usual run of several months, and that creates a palpable immediacy. "Gobbledigook" opens the album with a rush of stomping toms and almost giddy harmony singing that sounds a bit like Animal Collective--the most successful and radical departure for the new Sigur Ros. Elsewhere, though, the music drifts back toward their trademark sound; the overloaded "Ara Batur," recorded with the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory boys' choir, even teeters into bombast. Still, it's good to see the band try a more direct approach, even just for a bit.
Sigor Ros @ Chicago Theatre
Wed., Sept. 24
8 p.m.
Sold out.
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