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See also the short film titled ( ).

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( ) is the 2002 album-release from Icelandic band Sigur Rós, featuring 8 unnamed songs. This 3rd album of the band is divided into two parts: the first 4 songs are more "light and optimistic", while the last 4 songs are "bleaker and more melancholic". The two halves are divided with a 40 second silence.

The album's vocals are recorded in a created language the band calls "Hopelandic," which consists of meaningless syllables and resembles scat singing. Most of the syllable-strings sung by vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson are repeated many times throughout each song, and often throughout the whole album.

Interestingly, many of these Hopelandic "phrases" resemble English words and phrases (for example, "you sigh," "you sold," "you sign no more," "you sigh so long") leading many listeners to interpret them as such, thus inventing their own meaning. It is unclear whether this effect was intentional, but for a while after the album's release the band's web site featured a multimedia application that played tracks from the album while displaying various hypothetical lyrics suggested by fans. The album's packaging also included a 12-page booklet of blank pages, on which fans were invited to draw or write their own interpretations of the music.

Track listing

1. untitled (06:38) (Vaka - Wake)
2. untitled (07:33) (Fyrsta - First)
3. untitled (06:33) (Samskeyti - Joint)
4. untitled (06:56) (Njósnavélin - The Nothing Song - The Spy Machine)
5. untitled (09:57) (Álafoss)
6. untitled (08:48) (E-bow)
7. untitled (13:00) (Dauðalagið - The Death Song)
8. untitled (11:45) (Popplagið - The Pop Song)

External links

• Album samples
• Eighteen seconds before sunrise - the official Sigur Rós news source