release date: Aug. 20, 2003
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5]
4th studio release by Sigur Rós following only one year after ( ) is not a traditional studio album but an original soundtrack to a documentary movie about the main bus terminal in Reykjavik, "Hlemmur", by Ólafur Sveinsson (2002).
The music is more ambient than any of their previous albums, and it contains many short musical fragments all without vocals. It's not easily digested as stand-alone audiophile work.
The album was reissued as a boxset including the film on the band's own label Krúnk in 2007.
