{"id":6781,"date":"2012-06-22T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:03:36","slug":"sigur-ros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/sigur-ros\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGUR R\u00d3S"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6782\" title=\"SIGUR-ROS-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SIGUR-ROS-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SIGUR-ROS-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SIGUR-ROS-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>IGUR R\u00d3S<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Valtari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[XL]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sigur R\u00f3s\u2019 indefinite hiatus certainly didn\u2019t last long. A mere two years after the Icelandic quartet publicly questioned its own future (and frontman J\u00f3nsi released a solo album), they have returned with a sixth studio album. Clocking in just shy of an hour, <em>Valtari<\/em> is in many ways a more subdued affair than previous efforts. Tones are soft, and anything remotely raw is muted into a subtle buzzing in the background. Most of the tracks are instrumental, and when vocals are featured they often take on a haunting, choral form\u2014not necessarily human in tone, in much the same way that the synths here lack a purely electronic sound. Sigur R\u00f3s extends its mystic sensibilities to the humblest of arrangements. \u201cVar_eldur\u201d and \u201cFj\u00f6gur p\u00edan\u00f3,\u201d for example, are dominated by lovely, sparse piano that forsakes ambience to root them in firmer ground of organic instrumentation. It isn\u2019t vastly new territory, but a little time off seems to have allowed the band a slight change in direction.\u00a0 \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIGUR R\u00d3S Valtari [XL] Sigur R\u00f3s\u2019 indefinite hiatus certainly didn\u2019t last long. A mere two years after the Icelandic quartet publicly questioned its own future (and frontman J\u00f3nsi released a solo album), they have returned with a sixth studio album. Clocking in just shy of an hour, Valtari is in many ways a more subdued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4090,4091,3754,4087,4088,4089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6784,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}