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You can forgive Sigur Rós for being hazy on the details of the recording of their sixth album Valtari. Its either the album they always wanted to make, or the album they almost didnt make, depending on how you look at it.
In 2011, the band started the painstaking forensic task of piecing together a cohesive and magical work from disparate constituent parts. If this sounds unromantic, the results are anything but. Something alchemical occurs when the four members of Sigur Rós are in the room together, and even if Valtari is more a studio based album than any of its predecessors (which usually start life as rehearsal room jams), the long hours of experimentation and unsentimental editing have yielded incredibly persuasive results.
In English Valtari translates as steamroller and there is something right about the title in terms of the process of its creation. The last three tracks of Valtari are like one long slow gorgeous fade out, as the listener, having been softened up by the slightly more song-y start to the album, is left with the subtly shifting, deep introspective beauty of the last 24 minutes.
After that, penultimate track, Valtari is like the far heart of the album; eight minutes that feel like being alone in row boat on a chill day, small irregular waves lapping the wooden hull as a dense fog bank rolls in and ice slowly encases every surface. Below the fathomless green, deep endures.
"...filled with absolutely gorgeous textures" - NPR
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Limited time MP3 coupon
Selections:
LP1 - Side A:
1. Ég anda
2. Ekki múkk
LP1 - Side B:
3. Varúð
4. Rembihnútur
LP2 - Side C:
5. Dauðalogn
6. Varðeldur
LP2 - Side D:
7. Valtari
8. Fjögur píanó
Double LP! Gatefold Jacket! Limited Time MP3 Coupon!
You can forgive Sigur Rós for being hazy on the details of the recording of their sixth album Valtari. Its either the album they always wanted to make, or the album they almost didnt make, depending on how you look at it.
In 2011, the band started the painstaking forensic task of piecing together a cohesive and magical work from disparate constituent parts. If this sounds unromantic, the results are anything but. Something alchemical occurs when the four members of Sigur Rós are in the room together, and even if Valtari is more a studio based album than any of its predecessors (which usually start life as rehearsal room jams), the long hours of experimentation and unsentimental editing have yielded incredibly persuasive results.
In English Valtari translates as steamroller and there is something right about the title in terms of the process of its creation. The last three tracks of Valtari are like one long slow gorgeous fade out, as the listener, having been softened up by the slightly more song-y start to the album, is left with the subtly shifting, deep introspective beauty of the last 24 minutes.
After that, penultimate track, Valtari is like the far heart of the album; eight minutes that feel like being alone in row boat on a chill day, small irregular waves lapping the wooden hull as a dense fog bank rolls in and ice slowly encases every surface. Below the fathomless green, deep endures.
"...filled with absolutely gorgeous textures" - NPR
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Limited time MP3 coupon
Selections:
LP1 - Side A:
1. Ég anda
2. Ekki múkk
LP1 - Side B:
3. Varúð
4. Rembihnútur
LP2 - Side C:
5. Dauðalogn
6. Varðeldur
LP2 - Side D:
7. Valtari
8. Fjögur píanó
