This is the first song I ever heard by Sigur Rós. They're a brilliant Icelandic band who make music as epic and huge as the sky. To me, they make the sounds I imagine when I think about the stars singing, as they do throughout Phoenix, from the first page to the last.
This is a song from their untitled album ( ). It's the song I listened to the most in the seven years of writing Phoenix. It's what I was thinking of when I wrote that the stars made "a small, soft, silvery sound, like the chime of a faraway bell." And it's the kind of thing I had in mind when I wrote about how the sound "surged and swelled, rising up into the sky."
If you've enjoyed this post, and would like to hear the whole () album, I've made a Spotify playlist for you here. And I'll be posting another blog soon with more music that inspired Phoenix...
2 comments:
Can really see how the Sigur Ros soundtrack would work while you were writing Phoenix - very spacey!
Thank you very much, Lu! It was very spacey indeed. I had the () album in particular on repeat for long stretches of those seven years... it always put me right up there, among the stars, with Lucky.
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