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The Warfield November 23, 2002 Review by Jake Thomas I now see what all the hype is about for Sigur Rós. I really love their albums, but this live show was even more magical than anything they could lay down in the studio. Aside from the main guys that comprise the band, they also came packing with a four piece string section and a girl who played the glockenspiel. I love the glockenspiel, there should be more of it in everyone's music. The sound was amazing; I haven't been to many Warfield shows, but this was by far the best sounding one I had been to here and possibly my best aural experience of the year. I even wrote a poem about it: The bass sounded fantastic, the drums were truly boombastic, and the strings made me feel ecstatic. Jon, the singer, was in rare form. He was adding to the sound with his trademark playing of the guitar with a bow, and his voice was immaculate. Such range, and the way he holds those notes is amazing. I've often talked shit on the merits of the falsetto voice, but never again - he has truly made me a believer in the power and glory of the falsetto. Other than the band, the live show also comprised of a backdrop screen that would project different abstract images for each song, and an amazing light show. Well, not really a light show in the Pink Floyd sense of the word, but they had back lit the band, and with a little smoke in the air, created these great columns of light that really added to the whole experience. I'm sure there were some folks in the upper balcony who were stoned off their ass and really getting a kick out of it all. This will most certainly make my short list for best show of the year, and it will probably win. I gotta go see about moving to Iceland now. --- Check out our previous Sigur Rós review and photos: Photos - October 4, 2001 @ Warfield Review - May 2, 2001 @ The Fillmore ©2002 playinginfog.com |