Жанр: Ambient
Год выпуска диска: 2009
Аудио кодек: Flac
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue+scans
Битрейт аудио: lossless
+ MP3 (LAME) VBR 245 kbpsReview : Jonsi Thor Birgisson of Sigur Ros has taken some time out to record a side-project with his partner Alex Somers, serving as an extension of sorts to the artwork the two have previously collaborated on, which saw them staging exhibitions around the globe over the past few years (also under the moniker Riceboy Sleeps). You may recall the earliest fruits of the duo's labours for having been showcased on the 4AD Dark Was The Night compilation, and the track that made it onto that playlist ('Happiness') surfaces here too in a slightly different, longer version at the beginning of the album.
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The composition quickly swells up into a Pop Ambient-like construction, full of arcing string passages (supplied by regular Sigur Ros contributors, Amiina) and dense field recorded textures. Even during this first track, it becomes apparent that this is a record that invites all the well-worn journalistic cliches that always get thrown around when the issue of Sigur Ros is raised: it's remorselessly epic, emotive in the most fragile and genteel of ways, and (brace yourselves) 'otherworldly' in its delivery, but it also scoops out some of the histrionics we've come to expect from the Icelanders. For instance, you won't find any of the prolonged build-ups to those ever-increasing crescendos - in fact, there's no detectable post-rock hokum of any sort really, just a beautiful, carefully woven tapestry of heartbreaking sonic verdancy; it sounds like Sigur Ros evaporated. The album unfolds in a fashion that avoids repetition or sinking into a homogenised ambient mush, hitting peaks like 'Indian Summer', whose filtered, vintage piano tinkerings are capped off with a typically, er, 'otherworldly' wordless Jonsi vocal. Oddly, the Sigur Ros frontman can only lay claim to the second most cherubic vocal presence on the album, as 'All The Big Trees' harbours a truly celestial turn from the Kopavogsdaetur choir, all bathed in church-like echo and lapping waves of crackle. While the idea of conventional song structure is largely thrown out the window on Riceboy Sleeps, there's enough depth and overall consonance here to win over the most ardent of soundscape-sceptics, but equally, fans of drone-smiths like Tim Hecker, Stars Of The Lid and Mountains are likely to find plenty to admire here too. Highly recommended.
Tracklisting : Riceboy Sleeps - 200901 - Happiness
02 - Atlas Song
03 - Indian Summer
04 - Stokkseyri
05 - Boy 1904
06 - All The Big Trees
07 - Daníell In The Sea
08 - Howl
09 - Sleeping Giant
All Animals EP - Bonus CD01 - Chapter One
02 - Chapter Two
03 - Chapter Three
Rain Down My Favorite Songs - Bonus CD01 - Natalia Janotha - The Celebrated Polish Carillon using only the upper three keys of the piano''
02 - Alessandro Moreschi - Ave Maria
03 - Smárakvartettinn Á Akureyri - Voggubarnsins Mál
04 - Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son
05 - Django Reinhardt - Doux Sourire
06 - John Jacob Niles - The Gypsie Laddie
07 - Billie Holiday - I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me
08 - Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-Moi D'Amour
09 - Raoul Pugno - Marche Funèbre
10 - Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
11 - Ekkehard Ehlers - John Cassevetes (2)
12 - John Somers - A Candy Coated Slow Down
13 - Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards - When You Wish Upon A Star
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SIGUR ROS, Post-rock, Dream pop, Ambient
