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The official Sigur Ros web site does a very good job of keeping you up to date with their projects
Title: Nyja Lagid (New Song) Live at the Icelandic Opera House June 20th 1999 On: Svefn-g-englar EP CD (1999) When I still had cable TV (as opposed to Satellite Digital) there was only one MTV channel. Their "Alternative Nation" show was just that - a showcase for alternative/leftfield music. Late one night I caught what I think is the video to Nyja Lagid. There was the lead singer playing his guitar with a cello bow. It turned out not to be a gimmick but genuine way of getting new sounds from a guitar. Nyja Lagid starts off wonderfully understated and builds up into a slow but powerful crashing landscape of guitars, guitar sounds that shouldn't come from a guitar(!) and vocals over fully nine and a half minutes. Sigur Ros don't sing in English or Icelandic, but in their own language - which makes the vocals part of the music. The chord changes are heavenly. I'm trying not to compare them to Slowdive but they are in the same genre. I missed the song title at the end of the track on MTV. I bought the album: but could not recognise Nyja Lagid. I eventually puzzled out the fact that it must be one of the two live tracks on the Svefn-g-englar EP but by then the first pressing was only available on expensive auctions. Luckily Fat Cat reissued the EP and whilst I like everything on the album and EP, I love Nyja Lagid. I only hope Sigur Ros can come up with another amazing track soon. Perhaps they have already in the past - I haven't started on their back catalogue yet. Buy Sigur Ros from Amazon: www.sigur-ros.com - the official site www.sigur-ros.co.uk- also appears to be official - perhaps for us Brits. |
