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Angels of the Universe | 
 enlarge | Artists: Hilmar Oern Hilmarsson, Sigur Ros
Label: Fatcat
Category: Music
Buy Collectible: $32.50
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 629136
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 632427771227
EAN: 0632427771227
ASIN: B0000DENUT
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Approach/Dream | | • | Memory | | • | The Black Dog and the Scottish Play | | • | Degradation | | • | Over the Bend | | • | Colours | | • | Journey to the Underworld | | • | Shave | | • | On the Road | | • | Another Memory | | • | Relapse | | • | Coma | | • | Schiller in China | | • | Helpless | | • | Te Morituri... | | • | Bium Bium Bambalo | | • | Death Announcements and Funerals - Hilmar Oern Hilmarsson, Arnason, Jon Muli |
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Album Description
Originally an extremely limited release on Sigur Ros' Krunk label, this soundtrack, composed by Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson with Sigur Ros contributing 2 lengthy pieces, is now available on Fat Cat Records.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Blurry hope December 6, 2008
OneLove (so fla)
2 1/2
While plenty of people commented that the reason why most seek this out in the first place is in fact a false one, it is hard to fault listeners for being duped into thinking this might have been a full-on Sigur Ros ambient soundtrack; the also-Icelandic composer parallels quite a few production aesthetics found in the band's softer, more introspective moments (You can hear the Hilmarsson's influence in their next disc "()" immensely), making for a somber, if shallow experience.
 Please Note: THIS IS A SOUNDTRACK, NOT A SIGUR ROS ALBUM! December 23, 2007
x0r n3g4r10u2 (lost)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this isn't a sigur ros album! they only did two songs on the album... that's 2 out of 17 songs. THIS IS NOT A SIGUR ROS ALBUM, IT'S A SOUNDTRACK TO A FILM ADAPTED FROM A BOOK, I REPEAT!
...it seems like something that a lot of people don't realize.
the main composer and artist here is: Hilmar Oern Hilmarsson. he is well known for pioneering the incorporation of computers with music.
Not for everyone... September 16, 2005
Matthew Seybold (Irvine, CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are some outstanding moments throughout this album which will please even the casual Sigur Ros fan. The final cut is undoubtedly among their best, but the compositions of Himarsson go well beyond the ambitions of Sigur Ros' two recent critically-acclaimed releases. If you are a fan of ambient music and postmodern composition, delight in this, but if you're just looking for something to get stoned to, try ().
Brilliant May 3, 2005
Elise (Hamilton)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the soundtrack to an Icelandic flick called "Angels of the Universe". It is psychedelic at best although it offers that fuzzy has synonymous with Sigur Ros. I would describe this as a masterpiece. People who also like Bjoerk, Dada Pogrom, and Mum will be pleasantly thrilled. It is perfect bedtime music.
This is NOT Sigur Ros at all August 20, 2004
Dan Walsh (Ohio, USA)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
What amazes me with the reviews I've read of this album is the fact that people seem to think it was made by Sigur Ros, when in fact they only contributed two songs they had recently recorded for the Ny Batteri EP--those songs being the final two, Bium bium bambalo and Death Announcements and Funerals. Furthermore, the songs Sigur contributed weren't even penned by the band. Bium is an old Icelandic lullably, while Announcements is a song that is played one Icelandic radio whenever deaths of funeral arrangements are announced. Sigur simply remixed the songs about, and made them feel more modern.
With that out of the way, this album is still fantastic. I'd never heard Hilmarsson's work before this album, and it's safe to say I rank him as one of the more talented musical minds around today. There must be something about Iceland that allows its inhabitants to produce such beautiful art, because all the music I've heard from over there--Sigur Ros, Mum, Bjork, Hilmarsson--is unspeakably beautiful. Hilmarsson wrote this album fusing several styles together: there are strong elements of classical music (the Russian composers in particular), background ambience and effects with an electronic touch reminiscent of Sigur Ros or Mum, and finally repeating melodies almost like that of godspeed you! black emperor. I say almost because gy!be uses repetition to slowly lift you up and then throw you, while Hilmarsson uses it almost like a painter would use the same color over and over on his canvas. In the first four or five songs, there is a repeating tune that goes over and over, with slight variations each time in pattern, rhythm, background, etc. Around track six, that tune twist a bit and almost feels like it corrupts or decays. It becomes surreal and haunting. It builds in volume and intensity--again, very similar to gy!be, but not quite the same--until track eight, which completes the first half of the album. The second half has its own common features, even elements from the first half, but seems twisted somehow and otherworldly. There's a lot of fierce, distorted noise towards the end like in tracks eleven or twelve. It gets angrier and angrier until it seems to sort of die. The last tracks before Sigur's work are very soft and mournful, almost wind-like.
Cue Sigur Ros. I'm a huge fan of Jonsi and the gang, don't get me wrong, but...they hardly fit at the end. Hilmarsson's work is rather unique, it's his own, and you can tell yourself that the last two tracks were implanted by someone else. Maybe in the context of the film the last two songs make more sense, but not here. While they're good songs, more great work from Sigur complete with the signature haunting vocals and reverberations in the background, they don't fit on this album. I'd have preferred Hilmarsson to have finished the disc himself, or even by ending it at Te Morituri. While this is a phenomenal disc, and Hilmarsson definitely deserves five stars and due credit for the music HE wrote, the misplaced elements at the end made me bring it down to a three. Hilmarsson also has another CD out entitled 'Children of Nature,' but I've had no luck in finding it...shame this guy isn't better-known. He definitely deserves it, for the beauty of his work.
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