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Cat: 019029 6827204. Rel: 7 Dec 20
Post Rock/Experimental

Side 1 - Track 1. Prologus Side 1 - Track 2. Alfodur Orkar Side 2 - Track 1. Dvergmal Side 2 - Track 2. Stendur Aeva Side 3 - Track 1. Ass Hinn Hviti Side 3 - Track 2. Hvert Stefnir Side 4 - Track 1. Spar Eda Spakmal Side 4 - Track 2. Dagrenning

It should come as no surprise that the latest from Icelandic musical fantasists Sigur Ros was originally composed in either the 14th or 15th Century, and is written in the Edda tradition, a term used to describe to manuscripts that together make up the main sources of Norse mythology and Skaldic poetry. After all, this is a band that have been singing in their own imagined tongue since before most people cottoned on to them.

It's certainly the group's most gothic effort to date, an orchestral epic that also features the artists and composers Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Steindor Andersen and Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, whose collective CV includes pioneering musical composition with computers and Rimur chanting. Their combined efforts feel steeped such timeless atmosphere your peripheral vision might as well be catching torchlights flickering off solid stone walls. Another work of extraordinary beauty, then.