That's amazing.

hehe! sounds great. i'm sooo looking forward to it. :)

ok be forewarned, im in a ranting mood. i can't wait to hear "()", but could we ease up on the pretention just a bit? i want liner notes dammit!! and a pronounceable title would be a nice bonus. being all into the graphic design and stuff, it really pisses me off when bands are "too cool" to come up with anything that's visually creative to go with their music, or who must constantly make such complex, "deep" statements. ok maybe it's not an issue of being too cool, maybe a blank set of liner notes is saying "this album is completely open to your own interpretation and we dont wanna infringe on that." and it's supposed to be about the music, not the liner notes. yeah yeah yeah. but i guess im just greedy. and hasn't the whole blank liner notes thing been done a million times before? so it's not like they're being especially inventive here. i mean, i might as well just own a burned copy! ehhhh, who am i kidding, they've got me right where they want me and i know i'll shell out $18 for the album, liner notes or not, just so i can sit it next to Agaetis Byrjun and be "official." *sigh* back in the day (or so my dad tells me) albums used to come with big beautiful artwork, and often even contained freebies like posters (which came without a million fold marks in them). our generation is really getting ripped off; the CD was indeed a very clever business manuever. so, sigur ros, i hope your album is incredible enough to compensate for a lack of creativity in the packaging department. ok im done bein' anal :)

coco.. hehe... that rant just made my evening better... lol.. i feel ya... :)

I don't mind saying it: I think it's a fantastic idea in every respect. Sorry.

as far as i'm concerned, sigur ros can do what they want. its their music, no one else's. as far as liner notes, the songs are in hopelandic, which is made up. so they can't put the lyrics in the liner notes, anyway. and if they were in icelandic a majority of people who buy the album wouldn't understand them. if you think they're too cool, they probably are. :P

there's more to liner notes than lyrics . . . go check out 'amnesiac' . . . . now that's what i call a full package. awesome music, creative and relevant artwork, and well worth the money. i mean if sigur ros wanna half-ass it, that's fine! i wonder how you say 'half-ass' in "HOPELANDIC"

Apparently there's little images in the album sleeve and you can draw on them to make them look better and more complex and stuff.