I just returned from a 10 day trip to Iceland on Sunday and Sigur Ros is still on my mind. Every time I take one of my long adventure trips, I seem to listen to one band throughout the vacation. England was the Walkmen, while Spain was Stars. Don't ask why those bands seemed fit those countries, they just did. This time a more natural selection, the Icelandic post-rock band provided the perfect soundtrack to my travels. Their loud, expansive epics complimented the Iceland landscape as the island frequently appeared as a post-apocalyptic wasteland of jagged lava fields and craters with gorgeous waterfalls sprinkled in(this also kept my sanity), although a little darkness would have fit the mood Sigur Ros creates just a bit better(it was daylight my entire time there).
Not know for being the most upbeat of bands, their 2008 single "Gobbledigook" was a breath of fresh air for the band, trading in their cataclysmic orchestral drone for organic acoustics, percussion, and tribal like vocals. The "Goobledigood Brains" remix maintains the breath of fresh air theme(although I to do not listen to many remixes) as the usual and sometimes cliched throbbing bass line additions to many remixes is no where to be heard. The simple chord progression that starts the song is chopped up and a video game like synth line flows throughout the song. While the remix is nothing ground breaking, it does follow me to continue by Sigur Ros fix for a bit longer.
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