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From the very beginning, Jónsi and his collaborators, composer Nico Muhly, Alex Somers (who was half of the Jónsi & Alex project), and Samuli Kosminen pepper the listener with shards of sunny strings and woodwinds, spools of chopped-up guitars and keyboards, all sorts of digital manipulations, and above it all, layers of Jónsi's reliably enthralling voice. The songs alternate between tracks like "Animal Arithmetic" and "Go Do," which sound like the bubbling soundtrack to an awesome training montage in a film where pixies are training to battle fairies; atmospheric tunes like "Sinking Friendships" and "Grow Till Tall" that drift by like puffy clouds; and string-heavy ballads like "Kolniður" and "Hengilás." These ballads anchor the record just enough to keep it from blowing away in the slightest wind and give it some emotional heft. One could argue that not every record necessarily needs this kind of weight, and that it would have been more fun to add two more songs that spun like out-of-balance tops, but since Jónsi does ballads really well, it†s hard to complain too much.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Go Do / Jonsi 4:40
2 Animal Arithmetic / Jonsi 3:23
3 Tornado / Jonsi 4:14
4 Boy Lilikoi / Jonsi 4:29
5 Sinking Friendships / Jonsi 4:42
6 Kolnidur / Jonsi 3:55
7 Around Us / Jonsi 5:18
8 Grow Till Tall / Jonsi 5:20
9 Hengilas / Jonsi 4:14
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