One of my favourite albums is Marillion’s “Misplaced Childhood”. I wore out the cassette tape (remember them?) listening to it and I knew the album inside out. When I first listened to it on CD I noticed things I hadn’t heard before, particularly the singers wail as the guitar solo started, so I had to go back and listen to the tape again to see if it was there which, of course, it was.
It’s very rare that find an album that I just can’t stop listening to, but “Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust” (in english “With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly”) by Sigur Rós is one such album. It’s simply stunning! Haunting vocals and wonderful soundscapes are offset by quite edgy sounding drums.