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JONSI AND ALEX - "Riceboy Sleeps"
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Written by Mark Reed
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Sunday, 18 October 2009
 A few years ago, the Buddha FM3 Machine was all the rage. A handy red box that played twelve, random, mostly atonal and formless drone sound pieces that resembled songs in the vaguest form – all rising and falling uniform notes from one set of synth pads – it eclipsed the genre and became a form of music generative device whereby the music and sound created within became interchangable and indistinguishable from each other.
Four years later, this Sigur Ros related act follow the artistic howl with a disc of unique and oddly formless sonic landsc apes. There are melodies hidden in here, and tones, colour, texture, but ultimately nothing as conventional as a song – in the nicest sense of the word – the listener can get utterly lost in this music : think of the closing and opening sections of an art rock classic, the shimmering hum, and make a whole record of it. Like a formless desert landscape, this record creates a sonic space – the kind of vista you receive standing at the top of a cliff face toward a stormy sea – lost in a reveries, and invents a world of sound far removed from the tired convention of conventional music, new colours, different shapes, imaginary friends, unique skies, and a world unlike any other.
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