Ágætis byrjun

Chill music. I like it even though I don't understand a single word :D

A surprising true gem!

Schwer zu bewerten. Schön mal was anderes und neues zu hören, ein Sound der hier noch nicht war. Dafür macht man dieses Projekt. Allerdings kann ich trotzdem musikalisch keine 4 Sterne geben

Basically as close to icelandic trip hop as you can get - exceptional album.....

Gorgeous, atmospheric, feels like the soundtrack of exploring the world on a gray damp day.

I didn’t know about “post rock” as a genre but it seems I’m a fan!

I'm not all the way there with it yet, but I think I could be one day.

3.5/5

Lives up to the hype. Really inventive and unusual. They have a sense of melody that is lacking in a lot of other post-rock (or, let’s face it, rock in general). Intriguing.

Classic. Such amazing atmosphere. Have listened to this one a ton over my lifetime. 5/5

in the years since i've discovered this album i could have come up with so many things to say about how much i love it, but really i'll just say it's complete and utter perfection and leave it at that.

I quite like Sigur Ros, and I quite like this album. It’s definitely mood music, I couldn’t listen to it every day, but for what it is, it is amongst the best.

The sound of a long abandoned cathedral collapsing off an eroded cliff. In slow motion.

Some amazing tracks on here. I don’t think you can stop and start this and get the most out of it. I could potentially ask for this score to be changed at a later date as I think they are a band you need to be in a certain mood for.

A lack of actual musical instruments and foreign language lyrics make this uninteresting to me. Someone who can understand the lyrics would be able to rate fairly

1.9

Music like this is why the generator is so interesting. I probably never would have listened to this otherwise. I had seen the album cover, but didn’t know the name or the artist. im glad i took my time with it because this shit had me floating. The cover art perfectly fits. I don’t know the language, but I don’t need to. The dynamic swells and string arrangements keep the long songs interesting.

Such a beautiful album. I recently became a father to twin girls and Svefn-g-englar touched me very deeply. And who can't relate to having been born?! I find it interesting that the initial theme seems to surround being born and being a child but then evolves into self-referential self-pity regarding the unsuccessful first album of Sigur Rós. While I was hoping the album would be more generalizations about growing up from childhood to adulthood, in a weird way that is exactly what it is albeit more difficult to relate to for every person given very few of us have had an unsuccessful album produced in Iceland. Interestingly, the self-referential nature of this album became celebrated and lead to its success. Musically it deserves everything anyone has ever said. There was a time in my life when I could only fall asleep to Riceboy Sleeps by Jónsi and so I assumed Sigur Rós was also a very sleep inducing band. I found Ágaetis Byrjun to maintain my interest with every note and never induce sleep. It's an album that will stick with me for a long time.

Love this album. Love this band. Didn't realize how much of a noise band this was until relistioning to it again.

Today was a really happy day, which prevented me from enjoying this album fully. I’ll give it another try when I’m melancholic.

I get why some people might like it, but it's intolerably slow with annoying vocals. At its best, its background music.

this drags on for way longer than it should and the incredibly slow tempo makes it feel even longer