Sigur R�s are a band like no other. Forging a totally individual path, disconnected from the pop mainstream, they have nonetheless been embraced by critics, public and the glitterati alike. It’s not every day that an album of haunting post-rock sung in Icelandic is voted best new album in America but �g�tis Byrj�n is no ordinary album, and Sigur R�s are no ordinary band.
Attempts to describe their music and the feelings it evokes often reach for comparisons with the landscape of their Icelandic homeland – elemental, profoundly beautiful, effervescent, luminescent – the list goes on and on, and yet the band seem to have nothing quite so specific or local in mind. Their music, they say, is simply what happens when they play together – no more, no less. Or perhaps there’s something running deeper in them, and us, than they know.