Well, Ágætis byrjun still sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. So how does Ágætis byrjun (pronounced ‘owgetisbeerin’) shape up two decades later, and does it deserve a seven-disc vinyl set? Not that they were being negative, they crowned Sigur Rós “the first vital band of the 21st century”. On their website, they wrote, “We are simply gonna change music forever, and the way people think about music.Īnd don’t think we can’t do it, we will.” The Icelandic four-piece’s second album Ágætis byrjun was described by Pitchfork as “indigenous music”, comparing the band to the “Hidden People” of “Norse mythology”.īack then, there were no trolls on Twitter to ‘cancel’ the website for its casual racism. That month, Napster kick-started the ‘collapse of the record industry’, but Sigur Rós were busy helping to save it. June 1999: before 9/11, credit default swaps, social media toxicity, Trump and almost certain environmental disaster.
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