On the road again ... where actually?

It went surprisingly quickly. Just one year after the last album and personnel change achieves a surprisingly good and consistent album, as it's actually been around for () was slow in coming. Everything in between was neither bad nor somehow immature, most lacked something. Namely, that certain something. This can be - in my view - also difficult to describe. I try it anyway once: While () for me indisputable is the best album of the Icelanders, the successor appeared though still beautiful, but still somehow incomplete. So were other styles catchment, from pop music to jazz-allusions to even more melancholy. And you wondered: "And then?"

Of this remains short in kveikur: everything. It has something to appear from everything without mixed case. Despite the mix of pop (Ísjakí), distorted, wiry sounds (theme song kveikur) or bass-heavy, raspy electro music (Brennisteinn) loses the album at no point in intensity or emotion. It almost seems like a kind of discharge that was sorely needed, or is. It sounds generally darker, more dangerous and sinister. But even better. Exciting. As something I've been waiting for Sigur Rós quite some time: something that would be comparable with ().

Nevertheless, let the two albums is difficult to compare, which I think is not in any case would be the point of it. What so remembers exactly in detail at kveikur me (), probably no more than the balancing act between melancholy and ... something akin to aggression (?). This mixture fascinates me personally, even though I can not describe much closer. This has in () but even does not work, therefore:

Very good direction taken. Wherever.