Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
While the first single from Iceland's favourite indie experimentalist's Sigur Ros latest album 'Takk', sees the band in a remarkably commercial mood, 'Hoppipolla' still twinkles with the magnificence of arrangement, emotive feeling and all round sense of well being that only this band can amplify to full effect.
At just over four minutes long, the refinement of the bands standard notions of structure will serve to make proceedings more immediate for a potential legion of uninitiated fans but it is only a special few artists that can take that time frame and cram so much of note in. Based around one swirling piano riff building to an eventual crescendo of strings, brass and, presumably, every other available resonating instrument this is an entirely non visual medium but one that creates imagery to rival even the most magnificent works of art.
Sigur Ros have, on 'Hoppipolla,' created undoubtedly their finest work to date but moreover have created a tangible slab of real emotion to be held in only the highest of regard.