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{{quote|''Summer 2006''
''"Having toured the world over, [[Sigur
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* [[Concept Album]]: The film features several songs from the album ''( )'', on which all the lyrics were sung in Vonlenska (Hopelandic), a language constructed by the band. The soundtrack to the film also forms a sort of combination compilation/concept album.
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* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: The band visits a man who makes xylophones out of slabs of volcanic rock. The four play a piece on one of the larger models in a fire-lit cave.
* [[Indecipherable Lyrics]]: Only one song in the band's career has contained any English lyrics, although they all speak the language quite well. Everything else is either in Icelandic or Vonlenska (to which the listener is encouraged to assign their own meaning).
* [[Last-Note Nightmare]]:
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: Jonsi's falsetto is an epic example of this trope, even if he is male.
* [[Other Common Music Video Concepts]]: the concert segments are not music videos ''per se'', but they are stylized and exhibit some common music video tropes.
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* [[Rockumentary]]
* [[Singing Simlish]]: Vonlenska
* [[Stage Names]]: Icelandic names tend to be long and complicated and hard for non-Icelandic-speakers to say. Fortunately, most Icelanders often use easy-to-remember nicknames in daily life, and the guys are no exception:
** Jón Þór Birgisson - "Jónsi"
** Georg Hólm - "Goggi"
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