Sigur Ros vs. Godspeed! You Black! Emperor!

Sigur Ros and GYBE are hitting the peaceful town in Cleveland within the same week. An article in Cleveland Scene sums it up quite nicely in a boxing-like Tale of the Tape.

Some highlights:

Appropriate venue for listening
GYBE: Prison.
SR: That magical Teletubbies fairy land where the sun’s, like, this baby’s face.

Degree of pretension
GYBE: Jesus, dude, it’s orchestral rock, not Black Flag. Ideologically, band constantly combats age-old “We are fiercely anti-capitalist but must employ capitalism to sell records and thus fund our coffee-fueled anti-capitalist rants” self-loathing.
SR: Astronomical. No real album title, no song titles, no lyrics. A conceptual art-damaged mind fuck on par with Kangaroo Jack. (full story)

The rest of the article is worth your reading time as well. Go.

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