Sigur Rós
Are there really coincidences?
Now here’s as hilarious a true story as it can possibly get:
A few weeks ago, my mother dropped by unexpectedly for a visit (note to all would-be parents: your folks will augment the number of impromptu visits to your household tenfold once they have a baby grandchild). I was in the midst of cleaning up some dishes, with my baby girl playing gleefully, my son over at a friend’s house, and my girlfriend out running errands.
When I am alone, I crank up the volume on the stereo, especially when in the midst of remedial chores such as dishwashing. Not that I’m anything special in doing this, but it’s important you understand this detail for I was playing Sigur Rós’s () when mother arrived. As she walked in and Jónsi Birgisson’s voice filled my living space with his pure Hopelandic ululating, she pause for a second after saluting me, listened carefully, and snapped: “What’s this gobbledigook?”
A few weeks later, today, to be exact, Sigur Rós releases a song entitled Gobbledigook. Life is so magnificent, sometimes.
And it’s songs like Gobbledigook which give that little extra something to make life more-than-magnificent. A logical successor to what we heard on Takk, this song has completely ditched reverbing guitars for a very organic, one part tribal, one part pastoral, acoustic stomper, which maintains that usual magic which coos from Birgisson’s blessed lungs. Accompanied by a chorus of playful “la-la-la-la-la’s” for a glistening of lightness, the tempo sways and bucolic release make for one fun frolic.
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