Gobbledigook
First up, Sigur Rós unveiled a new track and corresponding video off their upcoming album. The track is called “Gobbledigook”. The video features no shortage of full frontal nudity amidst forests, streams and beaches. You can also download a free high quality MP3 of the track from their site.
Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Secondly, the new album itself. Titled Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (or With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly in English), their fifth studio album will street on June 23rd in the UK and the next day in North America. This marks the first time the band has recorded outside of Iceland, and features production work by Flood (who most recently co-produced Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree). The band also recorded one song in English, another first. Preorders on the latest Sigur Rós begin June 2nd on their site, and for those that do so, a full stream of the album will be available beginning a week later.
Lastly, I’ll leave you with part of the official line on Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust:
Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós decided to adopt a looser approach in the writing and creation of their brilliant fifth album. The material for the album was written, recorded and mixed entirely in 2008 and is being released just one month after completion. The album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, upfront presence not found in previous Sigur Rós recordings, moving away from the reverb-induced guitar sounds of old to something altogether more fragile and affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music the band has ever recorded.
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