release date: Jun. 12, 1999
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,82]
producer: Ken Thomas
label: FatCat Records - nationality: Iceland
Track highlights: 2. "Svefn-g-englar" (4 / 5) - 3. "Starálfur" - 5. "Ný batterí" (4 / 5) - 9. "Ágætis byrjun"
2nd studio album by Sigur Rós released in Iceland on Smekkleysa Records and by FatCat Records in EU is produced by Ken Thomas.
This was the first album I heard with the band, and it immediately made me fall for their take on post-rock, ambient, dream pop and progressive rock in one highly original blend.
Stylistically, it's a more refined development from the debut Von (1997), which with this appears much less coherent and also more shoegaze-oriented without the distinct original sound one will find on this, as well as their later releases.
The album is deservedly enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
