Sigur Rós will rise from their slumber (at least as far as studio recordings go) this week to release Átta, their first LP since 2013’s Kveikur. The group previewed the record earlier this week with the release of the song, “Blóðberg.” The surprise release, announced only one day in advance, will be available digitally on Friday and physically on Sept. 1.
Frontman Jónsi said in a statement that Sigur Rós’ goal with the album was for it to sound “really sparse, floaty, and beautiful.” “We’re getting older and more cynical,...
Frontman Jónsi said in a statement that Sigur Rós’ goal with the album was for it to sound “really sparse, floaty, and beautiful.” “We’re getting older and more cynical,...
- 6/15/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Sigur Rós have unveiled “Blóðberg,” the Icelandic group’s first new, original song in nearly a decade. It also marks the band’s first recording since the return of multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson in 2022.
The seven-minute production takes its time to assemble as mournful strings build to lush, rippling orchestral sweeps, while frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s divine vocals ascend to the most heart-wrenching of high registers. The staggering weight of the new single is matched in kind by its devastating music video, directed by Johan Renck. Watch it below.
“I feel as nihilistic as one could regarding the future,” Renck shared in a statement. “We are powerless against our own stupidities. Some aspects of this came to merge with my impressions of the themes of ‘Blóðberg.’ The music becoming a score to my own miserable thoughts, giving them beauty as only music can.”
Meanwhile, bassist Georg Hólm reflected on Sveinsson rejoining...
The seven-minute production takes its time to assemble as mournful strings build to lush, rippling orchestral sweeps, while frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s divine vocals ascend to the most heart-wrenching of high registers. The staggering weight of the new single is matched in kind by its devastating music video, directed by Johan Renck. Watch it below.
“I feel as nihilistic as one could regarding the future,” Renck shared in a statement. “We are powerless against our own stupidities. Some aspects of this came to merge with my impressions of the themes of ‘Blóðberg.’ The music becoming a score to my own miserable thoughts, giving them beauty as only music can.”
Meanwhile, bassist Georg Hólm reflected on Sveinsson rejoining...
- 6/12/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
★★★☆☆ In an act of alchemy thoroughly appropriate to his subject matter, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson manages to be both clear and misty-eyed about the traditions of the circus and vaudeville in new archive documentary The Show of Shows. After the interlocking segments of his wonderful feature debut Of Horses and Men, Erlingsson crafts a paean to a dying form of entertainment, fusing together carefully gathered footage of a variety of performances into several themed sections. Despite avoiding narration, the film captures a sense of heart-swelling wonder in one instant and reminds us of the darker aspects in the next. This is brilliantly assisted by an original score from Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós, in collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Kjartan Dagur Holm.
- 2/8/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Benedikt Erlingsson’s strange, woozy documentary ranges across half a century of circus and fairground entertainment
The Icelandic actor and director Benedikt Erlingsson has followed his fascinating drama Of Horses and Men by curating this weird documentary clip-montage. It’s a surreal tapestry of home-movie and newsreel fragments about the secret life of circus folk and itinerant fairground entertainers in various European countries from the 20s to the 60s, accompanied by the woozily ambient music of Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós.
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The Icelandic actor and director Benedikt Erlingsson has followed his fascinating drama Of Horses and Men by curating this weird documentary clip-montage. It’s a surreal tapestry of home-movie and newsreel fragments about the secret life of circus folk and itinerant fairground entertainers in various European countries from the 20s to the 60s, accompanied by the woozily ambient music of Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós.
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- 12/3/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"Game of Thrones" found some new musical guests for Season 4: Sigur Ros. The band is said to be involved in the upcoming season of the HBO series, but it's unclear whether the bandmates will be making appearances as characters in the show or instead will be recording a song for the upcoming season.
There have been precedents for both in previous "Game of Thrones" seasons. Bands like The National and The Hold Steady have recorded songs for Seasons 2 and 3 respectively ("The Rains of Castamere" and "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"), so it would make sense to have a third band come in and record a track for Season 4.
But at the same time, band members from Snow Patrol and Coldplay have also played characters in the show (Gary Lightbody played one of Roose Bolton's soldiers in Season 3, and Will Champion played one of the members of the band...
There have been precedents for both in previous "Game of Thrones" seasons. Bands like The National and The Hold Steady have recorded songs for Seasons 2 and 3 respectively ("The Rains of Castamere" and "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"), so it would make sense to have a third band come in and record a track for Season 4.
But at the same time, band members from Snow Patrol and Coldplay have also played characters in the show (Gary Lightbody played one of Roose Bolton's soldiers in Season 3, and Will Champion played one of the members of the band...
- 9/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Sigur Rós have announced a new UK tour. The band play the shows in England and Scotland as part of a 15-date European tour next spring. Sigur Rós will showcase the expanded brass and string sections which played on their summer shows, but the players will also feature on brand-new material. "You are limited to what you can accomplish with the 20-minute changeovers and all other constraints of a festival," said bassist Georg Holm. "To us, this summer's really been one long warm-up for what's to come." (more)...
- 9/11/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Shia's revealing appearance in a new Sigur Ros music video has tongues wagging. But what does the band themselves think? Read on for details! The minute it was released Monday morning, the music video featuring Shia Labeouf in the buff went viral. It seems everyone has an opinion about the actors appearance. But now he's getting some serious support from an important place: the band whose video he starred in. Georg Holm, bassist for Sigur Ros, told TMZ, "Icelandic people are not prudish about people being naked." (The band hails from Iceland.) Georg continues, "At first I didn't know what to make of the video, because it is so full of ideas and confusion...Now I love it. It seems to have no beginning and no end, and just makes you think about what might and might not be going on." TMZ reports that Shia is credited with collaborating on the concept for the video,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Billy Nilles
- HollywoodLife
Shia Labeouf's wang is getting some major support after it made its debut in a new music video for Sigur Ros -- with the band telling TMZ, "Icelandic people are not prudish about people being naked."The artsy video -- which features a few side profile shots of Shia's Lapenis -- went viral right after it was released on the Internet Monday morning. Now, Georg Holm, the bassist for the band, tells TMZ, "At...
- 6/18/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
How do you make the music video relevant again? With full-frontal Shia Labeouf nudity, of course!
Something about that sentence sounds wrong…
In any case, the music video for Sigur Ros’ “Fjogur Piano” has surfaced (via Indiewire), and it’s an intense, trippy, sexually-charged experience that certainly can’t be dinged for lack of ambition. Directed by Alma Har’el, who helmed the documentary Bombay Beach, the video even surprised Sigur Ros bassist Georg Holm:
“We really had no idea what to expect from Alma. Originally she was going to film us on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she’d met Shia Labeouf and they’d changed the idea, that was the last we heard of the concept and she told us nothing about what was going on … At first I didn’t know what to make of the video,...
Something about that sentence sounds wrong…
In any case, the music video for Sigur Ros’ “Fjogur Piano” has surfaced (via Indiewire), and it’s an intense, trippy, sexually-charged experience that certainly can’t be dinged for lack of ambition. Directed by Alma Har’el, who helmed the documentary Bombay Beach, the video even surprised Sigur Ros bassist Georg Holm:
“We really had no idea what to expect from Alma. Originally she was going to film us on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she’d met Shia Labeouf and they’d changed the idea, that was the last we heard of the concept and she told us nothing about what was going on … At first I didn’t know what to make of the video,...
- 6/18/2012
- by Jonathan R. Lack
- We Got This Covered
Happy Monday everyone! Miss your mornig cup of coffee? Well about a shot of Shia Labeouf's dong instead? Welcome to the new video for Sigur Ros' "Fjogur Piano."
Commissioning a dozen filmmakers to create whatever comes into their head when listening to songs from the band's new album Valtari, Alma Har'el -- the filmmaker behind the acclaimed documentary "Bombay Beach" (read our review) -- had a different idea in mind. And then she met Shia Labeouf. "We really had no idea what to expect from Alma. Originally she was going to film us on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she'd met Shia Labeouf and they'd changed the idea, that was the last we heard of the concept and she told us nothing about what was going on," said bassist Georg Holm. "At first I didn't know...
Commissioning a dozen filmmakers to create whatever comes into their head when listening to songs from the band's new album Valtari, Alma Har'el -- the filmmaker behind the acclaimed documentary "Bombay Beach" (read our review) -- had a different idea in mind. And then she met Shia Labeouf. "We really had no idea what to expect from Alma. Originally she was going to film us on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she'd met Shia Labeouf and they'd changed the idea, that was the last we heard of the concept and she told us nothing about what was going on," said bassist Georg Holm. "At first I didn't know...
- 6/18/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Why should we be excited about Sigur Ros' upcoming album Valtari?
1) It's the only Sigur Ros album that bassist Georg Holm has listened to for fun after the fact.
2) After years of trying, failing, giving up, and trying again, "something happened and form started to emerge." That sounds like the start of a creation allegory, but it's actually just Holm again, describing Valtari.
3) Frontman Jonsi Birgisson compared the album to "an avalanche in slow motion," and while we've never experienced an avalanche in normal motion, as we listened to the album's first released track, "Ekki Mukk" (which you can skip to below, if you need to immediately verify such claims), we honestly couldn't think of anything But an avalanche in slow motion!
4) As for the rest of the album holding up to that promise, if anyone can be trusted not to play fast and loose with avalanche metaphors, it should be someone from Iceland.
1) It's the only Sigur Ros album that bassist Georg Holm has listened to for fun after the fact.
2) After years of trying, failing, giving up, and trying again, "something happened and form started to emerge." That sounds like the start of a creation allegory, but it's actually just Holm again, describing Valtari.
3) Frontman Jonsi Birgisson compared the album to "an avalanche in slow motion," and while we've never experienced an avalanche in normal motion, as we listened to the album's first released track, "Ekki Mukk" (which you can skip to below, if you need to immediately verify such claims), we honestly couldn't think of anything But an avalanche in slow motion!
4) As for the rest of the album holding up to that promise, if anyone can be trusted not to play fast and loose with avalanche metaphors, it should be someone from Iceland.
- 3/27/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Prepare to be run over by Sigur Ros. That's because the title of the group's sixth studio album will be titled "Valtari", which allegedly translates to "steamroller" in English. The Icelandic band revealed the title of the upcoming set in a recent interview with Q Magazine, in which they also described the sound of the album as "dreamy" and "introverted", among other adjectives. Frontman Jonsi Birgisson, who recently scored the soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo" and also released a solo album in 2010, compares it to "an avalanche in slow motion." Bassist Georg Holm told the magazine there...
- 3/26/2012
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
We normally wouldn’t pay much heed to a moody indie film about characters struggling through emotional tumult. But when the movie is Powder Blue and it features Jessica Biel as a stripper, we’re all ears and other organs. God knows what to make of this trailer. It sure evokes mood but, hell, color-saturated shots of Biel squirming around showing off little outfits with Forest Whitaker, Ray Lioitta and a Cillian Murphy lookalike gazing off into the horizon thinking deep thoughts to a Sigur Ros soundtrack, well, hell, that’s, like, shooting fish in a barrell. The film is directed by Timothy Linh Bui, who co-wrote the film Three Seasons, directed by his brother Tony Bui. I saw this in 1999 when it came out and I am 85% sure I liked it. How’s that for an endorsement? After the jump, dig the video as leaked to YouTube. You can totally use this video.
- 12/10/2008
- UGO Movies
1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (Beggars/Xl/4Ad)2. Santogold and Diplo - Top Ranking (Mad Decent)3. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)4. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner)5. She & Him - Volume One (Merge)6. Sigur Ros - med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (Xl)7. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (Astralwerks)8. Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy (McA Nashville)9. Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)10. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL/Warner Bros.)...
- 11/23/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
Not to pull a bait and switch on you, but I wrote a lil' account of seeing Sigur Ros in Chicago last night, and it's posted at our sister site, Decider.com. In the future, as we launch Deciders in other cities, we'll be expanding our live coverage. So go over there and check it out, won't you? Here's a link to the post. And in exclusive-to-this-post news, biz-dev superstar Dave Chang and I were recognized in public last night from our appearances in Taste Test videos. That was funny/weird.
- 9/25/2008
- avclub.com
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