Artist Sigur Rós

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Sigur Rós

After finding lots of suggestive space in a sound that skewed as uniformly slow and ethereal, Icelandic band Sigur Rós grows a little more antic and wiggly on its most recent album, Med Sud Í Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. (It translates into English as With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly.) The first single, “Gobbledigook,” sounds a lot like Animal Collective, with mantric, tribal drum-pounding and coos carrying it up into the ether. But nothing Sigur Rós touches could avoid sounding magisterial and a little bit haunted, so don’t mourn the loss of tunes of old. Much of the newer album would slot in on the old records just fine, and live, the mood is extremely patient.

Updated 09/23/2009