Compared to the celestial heights that Ágætis Byrjun strove for, ( ) feels remarkably restrained. But in its own way, far more ambitious.

You get the feeling that, in order to truly appreciate this music, you need to see the movie.

If this isn’t music for overcoming broken times and bitter moments, than I don’t know what is.

This was a concert that had a real sense of honesty and purity of intent about it, the way it should always be.

Songs like these belong in movies at those pivotal scenes when someone has a religious experience, when long-lost lovers are finally reunited, or when someone is brought back from the brink of death.

I am here to say that Sigur Rós lives up to everything you’ve ever read or heard about them.