Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
What a vibe. Because I don't understand the words the album listens like an hour and twenty minutes of Thom Yorke whining into a microphone the end of a Radiohead song. A great post-rock record.
What separates this album from a lot of other post-rock albums from around the same period is the unique instrumentation, with strings (is it a bowed guitar?) and more non-traditional instruments compared to something like Swans or Slint. It's more of an ambient record than post-rock sometimes.
I do think it's too long for what it is, though. Generally more of an issue with the tropes of the genre than it is a comment on the artist though. Sigur Rós is now my second-favourite Icelandic band.
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