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Music : Vonby: Sigur Ros
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 Rating:  - Reminiscent of Sid BarrettIf someone had told me this album were some lost Sid Barrett Pink Floyd tapes from 1970 I would have believed them. One can instantly hear after this album the vast difference the arrival of Kjartan Sveinsson and his musical training contributed to the orchestral and string arrangements of their subsequent work. I akin Von to Floyd's pre Dark Side material and for a collecter it's still a worthy purchase in following the history of Sigur Ros. Rating:  - Much better than the other reviews might appearJust bought this after having had the other three albums for a number of years, and I have to say it's my favourite. Strongly reminiscent of Hawkwind & early Pink Floyd, especially Saucer Full of Secrets Rating: - Raw sigur rosI may be sticking my neck out here but this is my favourite Sigur Ros album. The songs on the album are all good and the ambient filler tracks are all perfectly decent (i like my ambient music you see). In fact a couple of the songs on the album are really really good, stayers on my mp3 player. I would say the key word is raw. And I like raw too. I can see though that if tak is more your sort of thing then von may not be quite what you would hope for - as the general sound does seem quite ... Read More Rating:  - A Not-So-Alright Start ...Before Sigur Rós became the alternative music darlings of the new millennium with their justly revered breakout album, Ágætis byrjun, their local reputation in Iceland was primarily presented in the form of this, their debut album Von, pressed and released under the Bad Taste label formed in the `80s by some of Iceland's more prolific punk music tearaways. The album's reputation amongst fans and the band themselves has since become a dubious one, what with the band's line-up having changed significantly ... Read More Rating: - really not that badi was very nervous about buying this album after reading the other reviews on this page, but after finding the courage to go and buy this album, i was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. it is not good value for money, because only 5 of the tracks could be described as songs, the rest of it is ambient mood setting noise. but the 5 songs (hun jord, myrkur, hafsol, von and sindir guds) are all excellent songs. also this album is hugely interesting to any Sigur Ros fan, in finding out how their beautiful music ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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