Sigur Ros - Valtari

Ethereal, melodic, harmonious, exotic. Sigur Ros's latest album Valtari continues to envelop the listener in a clouded atmosphere of drawn out songs (ten minutes) with their own inventive language loosely based off Icelandic. As always the pulsing melodies gently coax the listener into the never ending mystical environment. Valtari (icelandic for steamroller) follows the same patterns of the band's later work like "Takk" and "Inni". While Sigur Ros masters the melodic and ethereal aspect of their music, their previous meanings are lost. The made up language clouds any meaning the band wishes to convey. Every utterance is swept away by the melodies.
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