However, at its worst, the album sometimes slides into an almost overkill of sonic structures. One will constantly be waiting to hear what fascinating turns such complex musicianship will take at a moment's notice.ДЄt its best, the album seems to accomplish everything lagging post-shoegazers like Spiritualized or Chapterhouse once promised. Extremely deep strings underpin falsetto wails from the mournfully epic (' ViГ°ar Vel Tl LoftГЎrasa') to the unreservedly cinematic (' Avalon'). The rest of this full-length follows such similar quality. After an introduction just this side of one of the aforementioned Stone Roses' backward beauties, the album pumps in the morning mist with ' Sven-G-Englar' - a song of such accomplished gorgeousness that one wonders why such a tiny country as Iceland can musically outperform entire continents in just a few short minutes. Indeed, ГЃgГ¦tis Byrjun pulls no punches from the start. So as talented as Von might have been, this time out is probably even more worthy of dramatic debut expectations. This second album - ГЃgГ¦tis Byrjun - translates roughly to Good Start.

Even on aesthetic matters, Sigur RГіs entitle their sophomore effort not in a manner to play up the irony of high expectations (Г la the Stone Roses' Second Coming), but in a modest realisation. By this time, the band recruited in a new keyboardist by the name of Kjartan Sveinsson and it seems to have done nothing but take the band to an even higher state of self-awareness.

Sigur rГіs ГЎgГ¦tis byrjun songs