| #1419914 in eBooks | 2014-08-28 | 2014-08-28 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A lovely exploration of an inscrutably beautiful album|By Ulysses616|I love the 33 1/3 series, and I love Sigur Ros. Five or six books into the series, I can honestly say I've loved every volume, and this one is no exception. The anecdotes with which Hayden bookends his volume form a clever and poignant correspondence with the many symmetries he discovers in the ( ) album, and||“Ethan Hayden painstakingly transcribes the eight untitled tracks on ( ) into a series of long vowel sounds and odd clusters of consonants in an attempt to diagram the syntax of this strange new tongue and figure out what the band might be saying
Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention being that listeners will fill in the parentheses with their own title, their own interpretation of the sounds on the record. The CD sleeve consists of ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sigur Rós's ( ) (33 1/3) | Ethan Hayden. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
