Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Saeglopur
2. Refur
3. O Fridur
4. Kafari

Disc 2:

1. Saeglopur
2. Hoppipolla
3. Glosoli

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51766 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Single, EP, Maxi
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Saeglobular
It's only been a year since Sigur Ros's last full-length album "Takk," and yet... somehow I miss them.

Fortunately, to tide fans over, Sigur Ros has released "Sæglópur," an EP with accompanying DVD, as a sort of sequel to "Takk." It's not mind-blowing, but it is a pleasant little collection that fans will enjoy as they await whatever sonic prettiness Sigur Ros will create in future.

The title track opens with some odd creaks and croaking noises, as if someone left the mike out in the grass at night. Then the delicate, airy piano melodies begin, following Sigur Ros's pattern of slow buildup and expansive middle section -- the epic sonic sweep of "Sæglópur" is only upped by the dreamy outro that fades away.

It's followed by similarly pretty songs that are very much in their past style -- the low-key "Refur," which is barely long enough to count as a full song, and the hesitant violin shimmers of the eerie "O Fridur," which may be the most inventive song here. The EP finally rounds off with the lulling, ambient "Kafari," which almost sent me to sleep.

If anything critical can really be said, it's that "Sæglópur's" songs would work better as part of an album, rather than as odds and ends. But taken for themselves, the songs are quite nice and pretty, with that eerie, icy edge that Sigur Ros have turned into a trademark, along with Jonsi's otherworldly vocals and not-in-any-real-language singing.

The DVD includes three music videos: "Glosoli"opens with a drummer boy sitting by the seashore, and whose drumming draws other children to follow him over the snowy fields and mountains of Iceland, to a Peter Pannish finale -- which would sound trite normally, but which is done with an innocent sense of wonder.

"Hoppipola" is a sort of hand-cam video, and the weakest of the three -- basically a gang of old people acting like little children, though it has its cute moments (like that little kiss). And "Sæglópur" is the darkest of them, with sort of a twisted magical-realism/horror vibe. And an octopus.

This is basically a few odds and ends left over, but it's quite well done, and the music videos are a nice accompaniment. A nice addition for fans of the band.

A must for any fan.
If your a fan of Sigur this is a single that is well worth the £5. 3 songs that arn't featured on Takk as well as the single Saeglopur. Its my favourite song on the masterpice that is Takk. Also bonus dvd as well gives you three singles in video.

Great package for those new to Sigur Ros and completists
On the audio disc there is the album version of Saeglopur plus 3 new tracks, although track 2 - Refur - can be best described as an extended fade for track one. Only track 3 - O Fridur - can be described as a new song with the closing track - Katari - being a noodling glockenspiel workout.

I presume that most people have bought this release for the DVD content and it doesn't disappoint!
Slow mo? - check!
The band as extras? - check!
Dead children? - check!
Anyone who wondered whether the child died when the gas mask fell off in the ( ) video will have no doubt now. The Saeglapur video is a slightly disturbing underwater tableau followed by Hoppipolla which echoes Lars von Trier's "The Idiots" but with senior citizens. The final promo is for Glosoli which clerverly syncs a child beating a drum with the marching beat in the song and culminates in the children flying Peter Pan style from a cliff. Well, all the children but one, of course..........