At first listening to Jónsi, the familiar soaring falsetto of the lead siner is familiar form the ever-growing popularity of Sigur Rós. The solor prodject of Jón Pór Birgison, nicknamed Jónsi, has come after over fifteen years spent singing and playing guitar and piano for Sigur Rós.
The first track, "Go Down" automatically shows a more electronic feel, with a glitchy introduction as well as the use of a drum machine, but immediately combating the electronic feel is an acoustic flute melody. This sort of theme runs through much of the album. More rhythmic than previous work, there are drum machine beats and sampled sounds all over the album, but often the sampled sounds are acoustic instrumets. With the freedom of being solo Jónsi is fre to write for whatever instruments he feels fit, using violins often and even sometimes entire wind ensembles, making his unique sound.
Something that is also immediately different to fans of Sigur Rós is English singing, but for new fans, many will be wondering what language he's speaking half the time because he sings both in English and his native Icelandic as he did for most almost all of his previous songs. Though some of the lyrics come off sort of lame, you find yoruself singing along with him saying, "Together we can do anything!" in the track "Go Down."
while much is different, there are many hints back to Jónsi's previous role. All of the long swells, quick decrescendos, ethereally quiet moments and densely layerd moments of sound are all trnaslated into Jónsi's new sound. Everything you'd expect and more.
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