Tutuki - Te Vaka

Advantages: Great talents
Disadvantages: The talents wore out and were never that good!

...Having written this opinion a while back now, the actual splitting of STEPS has not affected me at all! This opinion was all hyped on how long STEPS were going to last written back in 2001! Now they have actually split up... StEpS WAS a band of 5 which included Faye, Lisa, claire, Lee and H who had been around for quite a while and finally realised there time was up! I have no right to say that STEPS were a complete failure because they were totally 100% not! They were a sucessful band/group but came and went just like the once famous 'sPiCe gIrLs' but sTePs actually split making their ' long era' actually come to a shooting halt! THE STEPS UPWARDS = The group came together in 1997 when there was a competition, all 5 members of sTePs came together together to form the amazing group. The band then released... Read review

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Advantages: Sound is out of this world
Disadvantages: "Hopelandic" can make songs sound a little similar

...- Vaka 06:38 mins 2.Untitled 2 - Fyrsta 07:33 mins 3.Untitled 3 - Samsketyi 06:33 mins 4.Untitled 4 - Njósnavélin 6:56 mins 5.Untitled 5 - Alafoss 9:57 mins 6.Untitled 6 - E-bow 8:48 mins 7.Untitled 7 - Dauðalagið 13:00 mins 8.Untitled 8 - Popplagið 11:45 mins They mean: Vaka: the name of Orri's daughter Fyrsta: The First Song Samsketyi: Attachment Njósnavélin: The Spy Machine Alafoss: The Band's studio E-bow: Jónsi's effect with using a cello bow to play his guitar Dauðalagið: The Death Song Popplagið: The Pop Song As can be seen, the tracks are uniformly quite long, but there is no Pink Floydian excess here; each song seems to be perfectly crafted and seems to be sent out exactly as it was supposed to be (it should be - they had to remove part of the roof of the Alafoss studio so that a crane could get... Read review

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Advantages: Sonic bliss from Iceland's best export
Disadvantages: Should eight tracks cover 72 minutes?

...) And that really sums up Sigur Rós. The music they write is as much music for the people who buy it as it is the music the band wants to make. I have included the working titles for the tracks as they don't have titles. They should provide a better understanding of the songs and of the album as a whole. 1. (Vaka) - the working title for this track is the name of Orri's (drums, keyboards) daughter. It's at first a bleak, sparse track: a synthesizer plays the riff once and is then joined by piano, and later Jónsi and a quaint string arrangement. The texture is built up with muffled samples of Jónsi's voice, creating a 'quilted' effect (for want of a better word). 2. (Fyrsta) - literally, the 'first' (song). Starts with a strange cacophony of moaning voices, which are soon joined by a guitar ostinato oozing sadness and later Jónsi's haunting vocals... Read review

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