Word: sparsest
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...temptations—food, alcohol, clothing, sex—and sophrosyne (self-restraint) was paramount to protecting their democratic way of life. In Herodotus’s chauvinistic “Histories,” the Greeks overcame the invading Persians because their army maintained sophrosyne, eating only the sparsest food, while the Persians indulged in luxuries even as they overstretched their empire, depleting the land as they feasted on it, marching westward in their own imagined manifest destiny...
...Heim” use abundant strings and horns to fill the gaps. “Heysátan,” with its delicate brass swells, outshines the original version. Standout track “Ágætis Byrjun” features the album’s sparsest instrumentation, allowing the listener to focus on the vocals. Never has Jonsi Birgisson’s otherworldly falsetto, both bright and haunting at the same time, rang through as clear as it does here.Companion disc “Hvarf” features three previously unreleased songs and two rerecorded pieces...
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