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OT-- Sigur Ros

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 23:26
Spotted this in the NYTimes, Sunday 1-/27:

QUOTE
In skeptical, self-conscious times, Sigur Ros offers reverence without
religion and grandeur without guilt.  Its songs are processionals and
elegies, and a single one can stretch as long as 13 minutes on the band's
third album "( )" (MCA/Universal)...due for release on
Tuesday.....(snip)...[In previous albums] Mr. Birgisson sang in Icelandic
about war, elves, sin, salvation and being born.  But the eight songs on
( )" are untitled and sung in an invented languages he calls Hopelandic....
ENDQUOTE

Sounds rather interesting.....is anyone familiar?

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