Explore Sigur Rós’ Ágætis byrjun (in 5 Minutes) | Liner Notes

Ágætis byrjun, the second studio album by Sigur Rós, is an otherworldly epic. The album offered a reaffirming lesson that audiences didn't need to understand lyrics to find meaning.

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Explore Sigur Rós’ Ágætis byrjun (in 5 Minutes) | Liner Notes

[atomicbrain]

This may be one of the rare times anyone had ever said these track names out loud in a video.

[halt.halt.halt.]

Definitely one of the best records ever made.

[neverknowingnothing]

valiant effort with the pronunciation.

[aagantuk]

Nothing better when you're in the mood.

[nucc]

Svefn-G-Englar goes down with Radiohead’s Paranoid Android, Aphex Twin’s #3, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, and LCD Soundsystem’s Dance Yrself Clean as the greatest songs ever written, as far as I’m concerned.

[cherrysunburst]

Viðrar vel til loftárása is the best song I've ever heard

[alvarorocha]

i've heard the 'tjuuu' in svefn-g-englar is a song moms and dads sings to lull their babies in Iceland, which makes absolute sense with the music lyrics and i think that's beautiful

[Fanchus]

This album is from another fucking planet. It's some next level shit.

[avedic]

This band....is just ridiculously important to me.
For a solid year I would fall asleep _every single night_ to this album. It's in my brain forever. Every note. Every nuance.
It's a perfect record. Von, their very first album, is another excellent falling asleep record.
I don't even know what to say....their music just reminds me that music _and_ life itself....is the most important thing that exists. I listen to Sigur Ros when I'm feeling more depressed than I ever have I listen to them when I feel overcome with gratitude for being alive at all. And somehow....both of those reasons make perfect sense in the context of their music.
Easily one of the most underrated bands of all time. Although us IT.

[sheenabailey]

I love them. Geniuses. The creators of that whole sound are geniuses.

[Nicksloan]

This album really got me into post-rock and really just instrumental/symphonic music. Do Mogwai's "Young Team" next!

[bunnywithabanner]

Tracklist:

1. [untitled]
2. Sleep-g-Angels
3. Starfleet
4. The Flight Liberator
5. New Batteries
6. The Heart Beats (Bam Bam Bam)
7. We Are Good At Air Conditioning
8. Olsen Olsen
9. Good Start
10. Avalon

[dupisdisasterpiece]

Literally one of the best bands in existence.

[pazer]

Listening to this album on a ship during a windy night with only darkness and all the stars above me was an out of body experience

[buckleygeneration]

I clicked on this video to hear the album title get butchered, and I was not disappointed.

[michaelallen]

worth the wait on this one, pitchfork! At least the pronunciations were attempted for “yahn-see” and the gang

[elsakristina]

I love this band and this is (one of) my favourite album of theirs so far.

[chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b]

Easily in my Top 10 albums of all time.

[davidley]

I've been waiting for this since the start of the '5 minutes' series.

p.d.: do 'arcade fife - funeral' or 'cocteau twins' - heaven or las vegas next!

[ajpdeschenes]

I'm definitely happy that Pitchfork (at last!) made a "Liner Notes" video on Agaetis Byrjun, but I feel it's not the best of the series. I had the impression it stayed at the surface of it, though the idea at the end of a universal language is an interesting one.

But as said in a previous comment, because of Pitchfork, I now remember why it's easily my favorite album!