Amiina - Kurr (2007)

This group is an Icelandic string quartet, often appropriately likened to Sigur Rós. (From what I understand, they tour together, and I think they may have even been present when I saw Sigur Rós at Bonnaroo this past June.) The music is very pretty, like glass ornaments that sparkle and catch the last slice of daylight before dusk sets in all the way. I'm not stretching for poetic description here either; it actually does sound just like that. There are some faint vocals that function more as another instrumental layer than as direct human involvement, but for the most part this is just really impeccable, beautiful stringing.



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