The High Wire vs. Sigur Ros

I must confess I like The High Wire more than Sigur Ros despite the latter possessing significantly greater amounts of technical merit. It took about half a dozen listens before The Sleep Tape managed to whack me firmly on the noggin to say “OI PAY ATTENTION I am a good album… see?” (yes you are). Meanwhile Sigur Ros, in all their subtlety, don’t really care what I think. They’re all like “Soz, can’t hear your neutrality over our ethereal otherworldliness” and then they emit some ethereal otherworldly sounds.

Given their detachment from the real world, I doubt they noticed the little ‘Hoppipola’ soundalike sitting quietly in the midst of ‘Honeycomb’.