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A melancholic slab of misty ambience. This is wonderful music for the evening, autumn and winter that is.I bought this album after seeing Sigur Ros in concert and then following up with the live streaming concert on www.sigur-ros.co.uk Tracks 4 and 8 seemed to be the same track at first listen. 4 being a slow sometimes sorrowful sometimes joyous but overall uplifting piece, 8 being similar in the first half of the song but then accelerating into a crashing driving pulsating denouement. Track 8 live was breathtaking, much like the effect one gets upon hearing Awaken or And You and I, even here on the studio version it can be awesome especially on the headphones. It is true that there is a familiar feel to all the tracks from one onwards but the feel is one that this listener found strangely bittersweet, the music telling a sorrowful yet beautiful and sometimes joyous tale. Sigur Ros are a seriously talented outfit, i take my hat off to them as i never thought that i would gain so much from a modern prog band. The world has been saved