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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Icelandic band Sigur Ros, who have been admired by the likes of Radiohead and Coldplay, will release their first album in four years on May 29, marking the end of the band's indefinite hiatus, the band announced on Monday. The band's sixth album, "Valtari," is comprised of eight songs, runs 54 minutes and will be released on double LP, CD and digital download formats. The band initially put the album on hold while lead vocalist Jonsi Birgisson recorded and toured a solo album. ...
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submitted by Nick Jul 2nd 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The latest in Sigur Rós’s ongoing video series is a clip for Valtari standout “Rembihnútur,” a visual that fixates on the faces of people, eyes closed, focusing on their inner moments. It ends in a very signature Sigur Rós way, which makes sense since longtime collaborators Arni & Kinski directed it. Wat...
Hollywood star features in 'Fjögur Píanó'
Shia LaBeouf’s dong is probably not the first thing you’d expect to see in a Sigur Rós video, but it is indeed one of the first things that appears onscreen in the new video for the meditative instrumental piece “Fjögur Píanó.” In the clip, we see LaBeouf engaging in some morning naked experimental bal...
submitted by Nick Jun 6th 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Here’s the second installment of Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari video series and this clip’s a little more straightforward than the last. It’s a slowly shifting depiction of a craggy landscape directed by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, who designed the Valtari cover. Watch it below. Valtari is out now on XL.
submitted by Nick May 21st 2012 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Sigur Rós’s video for the understated, Valtari-kicking-off Ég Anda is, err, a strange look, as it’s very much a step-by-step visual manual on how to prevent someone from choking. But, it does have the requisite stylize-azation for something as stately as a Sigur Rós track, though. It’s the first of 12 videos from...


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