They (i.e. Barbara Streisand) say people who need people are the luckiest people. But you know who really are the luckiest people? People who have a ticket to see Sigur Rós this summer. It’s not…
2008 is definetly my Sigur Ros year. I am sure I will always think about it as the year I listened to an awful lot of their stuff. Of course having a new album out this month makes that even more likely the case. And…..and I more excited about this than anything I have done for years……I am going to see them twice.
First is in a couple of weeks at the Westminster Central Hall - it should be phenomenal. Tickets already exchanging on ebay for silly money. And then, in July, I’ll see them headling the Saturday night at Latitude, hopefull with all the family. I think (given the two tracks of the new album that are already out there) that both events are going to be very, very, special.
Anyway this clip from Heima shows them at the their very best.
“If you saw John McCain’s painful speech last night, you, like us, might have thought dude looked like an actor who forgot his lines during an audition for a Depends Commercial and was just winging it. Talking Points Memo compiled the reactions from commentators to McCain’s “That’s Not Change We Can Believe In” speech, and it is pretty darn entertaining…”
Well I think that’s it. Decision made. Goodbye Wordpress. Hello Tumblr.
From now this shall be my interweb home. At least there will be some activity irrespective of whether I ever feel the urge to put thoughts to keyboard ever again. There will be the music I am listening to. It’s going to be fun.
I don’t know how much of an introduction is needed for a band like Sigur Ros, so I’ll keep this brief: they’re an Icelandic band, they never sing in English, their music is most immediately classified as ethereal post-rock, and they do not suck.
This afternoon, Sigur Ros released the first track from their upcoming album Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, and it’s called “Gobbledigook”. The track features plenty of hand-clapping, tribal drumming, and draws immediate comparisons to early Animal Collective. If the rest of the album lives up to the promise in this song, then expect to see this album on every worthwhile “best of” list come December.