Sigur Ros's 2002 album ( ), commonly referred to as "the bracket album," is one of those I can listen to over and over and over again. It's intense. A few things about it:
* There's some music great for listening to on a drizzly grey day. This album, however, is the best album there is for listening to during a nighttime storm.
* The lyrics are sung in a made-up language called "Hopelandic." They don't "mean" anything.
* I have a strong memory of NPR using track four as interstitial music connected to the World Trade Center attack. In my mind, they played a snippet on September 12, 2001. Since the album was't released until over a year later, I guess that's not possible. Maybe it was for an anniversary piece? Maybe it was another Sigur Ros song, but my mind has replaced it? Maybe it was another tragedy? Whatever the inaccuracy of my memory, I still associate the song, one of my favorite songs in the history of everything, with the sadness of that day. And the first four songs are considered the happier half of the album.
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I looked it up. All Things Considered used a Sigur Ros untitled track for interstitial music on September 11, 2003. It was an anniversary. My memory isn't as bad as I thought. Maybe.
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