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2CD or double vinyl edition. Sigur Ros's third album ( ), 'Parenthesis', celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022. An album often considered the band's finest project alongside its predecessor, the groundbreaking album 'Ágaetis Byrjun'. The 25th-anniversary edition features an expanded tracklist with the three tracks 'Untitled #9' (which formed the B-side of 'Untitled #1') as well as demos of 'Untitled #6', '#7', and '#8'. The 8 original tracks of the album are newly remastered. Reissue of Sigur Rós's 3rd album. The third studio album by the Icelandic post-rock band. It is the only album where Jónsi sings entirely in the mute lyrics of Hopelandic. A desire to elide meaning and allow the listener to bring their own interpretation to the music extends to all eight songs, which are all untitled. The music is broadly divided into two halves, separated by a critical 36 seconds of silence. The first half of the album is lighter and more optimistic, and the second half is darker and more melancholic, culminating in the thunderous climax of 'Untitled #8', the closing song of every Sigur Rós concert since the song was written in 2000.