NPR's Luke Burbank takes himself way too seriously

While in New York for a screening of their stupidly beautiful '06 Iceland tour documentary/concert film Heima, Sigur Rós were interviewed on an NPR show.

Although they claim that they, "love the band Sigur Ros" in their post, its clear that The Bryant Park Project are occasional listeners at best.

All involved probably "love" U2, Sting, Enya, Kanye West, Madonna and the collective hodge podge of mindless crap out there as well.

In the video, its pretty clear that the band didn't want to be there. However, its also clear from the show's post that everyone handling them wanted them there.

The interview consisted of the band giving short answers and sitting silently for long periods of time.

Now, Luke Burbank is riding this for as long as he can. The show posted the video of the interview. After a swell of feedback from bloggers and fans, The Bryant Park Project then posted another video of Burbank and Jancee Dunn watching and critiquing the original interview video.

If Burbank and everyone involved with this show cared more about the music than their mechanical need to create "music news" the interview would have gone dramatically different.

Oh, you want proof? Try this or this.
(I believe that's the band talking . . . there goes the "They just didn't understand the questions" hypothesis.)

The difference between Nic Harcourt and these NPR fools is, again, their intent.

It's an embarrassment that The Bryant Park Project is trying to "understand" why this went badly. And how obtuse to think it's the bands fault.

The truly sad point in all of this is The Bryant Park Project's failure to appreciate the opportunity that they had. Time will show that Sigur Rós are one of the most important group of artists during this century. And, it won't be because of their ability to chart a course through the business of music. It'll be on the basis of their music alone.

UPDATE: You caught us! We're not even occasional listeners/readers of The Bryant Park Project. We've updated the names to reflect this correction. However, the anonymous coward comment has been removed for obscenities (Honestly, you kiss your mother with that mouth?).