Sigur Ros - 'Hoppipolla' (EMI) Released 01/05/06

Originally released last autumn to an all too muted public response, thanks to the magnificent ‘Hoppipolla’ being used on the BBC’s Planet Earth everyone is vying for their piece of the glacial Icelanders. And thank **** for that, as ‘Hoppipolla’ is nothing short of wondrous – sweeping keys, sensory absorbing, cavernous, organic soundscapes and frontman Jon Thor Birgisson’s impossibly sonorous almost alien noises all make it nothing short of epic. Spine-tinglingly brilliant stuff, then – if the re-release gets more people into Sigur Ros, then that’s surely a great thing.