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Album Info
The making of Pink Boats began in Flatey Island. The initial plan was to record the album over a one month period but soon the project began to expand from the original intentions.Still, most of the album was recorded on an old laptop with only one microphone. In accordance with the unique atmosphere surrounding the Flatey Island recordings, the band decided to continue recording the album in unusual places, such as Esjustofa Restaurant at the roots of Esja mountain, a community centre of a retirement home in Reykjavík, an abandoned herring storage tank in the west fjords of Iceland and the tall tower of Hallgrímskirkja Church in the centre of Reykjavík. The album's name derives from a vision that haunted the band during their recording sessions when the red Icelandic sunset would lie over the sea's horizon and turn all the boats from white to pink.http://vigri.co.uk/
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Comparisons to Pink Floyd and Earth come to mind. Regardless, this is a great album. A very consistent sound.
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Unlike the other wordsmiths on this site, I'm not very good at painting pictures with prose. Metaphors are what follow metathrees as far as I am concerned, so I can't really put into words how much I like this album. Speaking (or writing) as a child of the sixties, I can hear a lot of different influences in this music from different eras. Most importantly though, I hear a band that has put effort into their music and come up with something very rewarding. Vigri, you should be proud!!! Nice.
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Vigri arrive at the scene with an ambitious and powerful debut, the self-produced ‘Pink Boats’. With dark and heavy arrangements and a dreamlike atmosphere, the band asserts itself in the Icelandic experimental post-rock tradition of bands such as Sin Fang and Sigur Rós. But make no mistake, with ‘Pink Boats’, Vigri are making their own unique mark on the music scene.
The album’s quality lies not the least in the band’s ambitious and strong songwriting and songs such as ‘Animals’, ‘I Augsyn’ and ‘Fume’ are excellent examples of the band’s keen sense for strong and memorable melodies. It takes a few listens for these songs to settle in but once inside your head they tend to stick there. The first song that caught me was the album’s third track, ‘Animals’, which is probably the catchiest song on the whole album.
In fact, the only thing that bothers me about ‘Pink Boats’ is the clashing styles of the artwork. The front, back and inlay are in my taste too different from each other and thus fail to create an artistic whole. In my personal opinion, the band should have chosen one style for the whole cover.
To sum up, ‘Pink Boats’ is the one of the most powerful, ambitious and exciting albums I have heard for a long time and I can’t wait to hear what these guys have in store in the coming years.
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The best thing that came out form Iceland since Sigur Rós’s Ágaetis Byrjun, ( ) and Múm’s Loksins Erum Við Engin, and one of the most ambitious albums I've heard in years!!!
It has the power and the breath of Pink Floyd... and at the same time, we can feel that they're from the same land than Sigur Rós (engineer : Birgir Jón Birgisson). "Coin Finder" and "These are the Eyes" also remind me some King Crimson narrations. Vigri has both the boldness of 70's progressive and sensitivity of experimental post-rock.
Keyboards and brasses on many songs (Animals, I Augsyn, ...) give a real power and deepness to the music. Back vocals are also great and give humanity, almost a feeling of sacred. One of their greatest strengths is also the use of traditional instruments and sounds proper to Iceland.
My hope is that they get greater audience, because they have more resources and future than many post-rockers. If Vigri lacks one thing is maybe innovation. They truly master what they do, but we feel that they're playing on the same ground that their predecessors. ("Sleep" is maybe the most personal song on this album, and my favorite.) With all the talent these guys have, if they truly create something new, it can change the landscape of music, I'm sure!
If you like this, I recommend you also Phär and The Heavy Experience (on gogoyoko).
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- Genre: Alternative
- Format: Album, MP3, 320 kbps
- Release Date: 25 May 2011
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