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The scene in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou where Sigur Rós's "Starálfur" bubbles up on the soundtrack is one of my favorite goosebump moments of the past decade of film, proof positive that the exact right match of song and visual can elevate even a mess of a movie like that one.So credit Irish writer/director Neil Jordan, the guy who made The Crying Game and Interview With the Vampire, with some truly savvy instincts. As Sigur Rós announced on their website last week, Jordan has enlisted the band's keyboardist, Kjartan Sveinsson, to write the score for his forthcoming film Ondine. A few songs from Sigur Rós will also appear on the soundtrack.In The Life Aquatic, Sigur Rós's particular brand of airy mystery worked beautifully in fantastical deep-sea scenes. From the looks of things, Jordan may have similar uses in mind for the band. IMDB describes Ondine's plot thusly: "The story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid." So magical-realist Splash, basically. Nice! Also, Colin Farrell plays a character named Syraceuse, and that guy killed it in In Bruges, so this movie could be really good.
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Last night, Sigur Rós performed in their native Iceland for the first time in four years and to commemorate the occasion they played a new song called “Brennisteinn.” Musically, it’s a bit of a departure from what they usually do, featuring big bursts of electronic noise. Watch it below. (via CoS) Valtari is out no...
submitted by Nick Oct 22nd 2012 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Here’s the latest entry into Sigur Rós’s Mystery Film Experiment, a murky, eerie clip for Valtari‘s “Varðeldur.” Irish artist Clare Langan composes and directs. Watch it below. Valtari is out now on XL.
submitted by Nick Oct 9th 2012 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Icelandic dreamers Sigur Rós are still making videos for their Valtari Film Experiment, in which every song from their new album gets a video treatment from a different visual artist. The latest, for “Dauðalognm,” is a slow, tender, atmospheric thing, in which one man carries another man — a naked man — ...
Even though Sigur Rós’s ongoing Mystery Film Experiment has given the world some pretty odd footage — like, you know, the clip where Shia LeBeouf gets naked — the clip for “Ekki Múkk” might be the strangest yet. And that’s not to say the result isn’t completely entrancing an...
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