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Click here to pre-order a copy and check out the tracklist below.ģ x LP – Demos and Rarities (109 minutes): Ágætis byrjun – A Good Beginning – 20th Anniversary Edition will be released on 21st June via Krunk Records. Housed in a linen box, the reissue is accompanied by an 84-page hardback book featuring rare and unseen ephemera from the band’s archives, from photos to hand-written arrangements and lost artworks. The set also includes a 2xLP edition of the band’s 1999 live performance at the Íslenska Óperan (Icelandic Opera House).
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Widely acclaimed as the album which propelled Sigur Rós to an international audience, Ágætis byrjun was originally released on Smekkleysa, and appears here alongside an extensive box set three LPs of demos, rarities and alternate versions.
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Read next: Sigur Rós’ Kjartan Sveinsson collaborates with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson Birgir would later go on to be engineer at Sigur Rós’s own Sundlaugin studio.Icelandic post-rock icons Sigur Rós will reissue their 1999 album Ágætis byrjun across seven LPs via Krunk Records this June. Live At Íslenska Óperan, 1999 has been specially mixed for this 20th Anniversary Edition by Kjartan from the band and Birgir Birgisson, who all those years ago made the original RAS 2 radio recording of the event. In a note of poignancy, the show at the Íslenska Óperan would be the last original drummer Águst Gunnarsson would play with his fellow band mates, vocalist/guitarist Jón Thor Birgisson, bassist Georg Holm and keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson, who himself had only officially joined the band the year before.
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Recorded for Icelandic radio, the 95-minute show has not been heard in full since it was broadcast live on the day 20 years ago. There is also an immaculate recording of the concert the band played at the Íslenska Óperan (Icelandic Opera House) on 12th June 1999 to celebrate the release of record that would soon send them around the world on word-of-mouth alone, a pre-internet phenomenon. These songs have been hand-picked by the band to include nascent versions of every song on Ágætis Byrjun, alongside demos of songs that didn’t make the cut, and the long sought after “Debata Mandire”, on which Jónsi and Kjartan duet in keening falsettos, before, as Kjartan says, his “bad habits” robbed him of the ability to sing that high. In some cases the only source might be a single, unlabelled cassette and, as a result, the odd glitch is part of the patina of age. They are snapshots of a band trying things out and about to find their feet in a spectacular way. Songs have guide vocals, or are played at different speeds, with alternative arrangements and no words – not even Hopelandic.
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The original album is released on heavyweight vinyl double LP, with bonus download content to include early versions and demos of the songs on the record, as well as never before heard songs that for the first time draw a line back to early influences which would soon become undetectable in the rootless beauty of the finished article.ĭemos, Rarities And Early Live Recordings have been pulled together from the band’s own personal archive and contain many recordings they had forgotten existed. The band was Sigur Rós and the record Ágætis Byrjun (meaning A Good Beginning), and to mark its 20th birthday this June, the band will release a special anniversary edition of their breakthrough album. In 1999 a band came out of seemingly nowhere to deliver a record that “filled a deep-seated need listeners didn’t even know they had” (Pitchfork Best Albums of the 00s).