Icelandic dream-rock heroes Sigur Rós released Valtari, their last album, less than a year ago, and they’ve already announced plans for the follow-up. Kveikur, out in a couple of months, is the band’s first album as a trio, now that multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson has left the band. The new album will include a bunch of songs that the band has been playing live lately, and the members of the band have been calling the LP’s sound “more aggressive.”
That certainly applies to their latest eight-minute swoonathon “Brennisteinn,” which welds the band’s trademark falsetto swoops to a serious low-end churn. The band has just shared director Andrew Huang‘s video for the track, and it’s a cryptic, muddy epic allegory about something or other. Combined with the song’s prog-metal undercurrents, it’s enough to convince me that they’ve been spending some time with old Tool videos lately. Watch it below.
Kveikur is out 6/18 on XL.
Tracklist:
01. “Brennisteinn”
02. “Hrafntinna”
03. “Isjaki”
04. “Yfirbord”
05. “Stormur”
06. “Kveikur”
07. “Rafstraumur”
08. “Bláprádur”
09. “Var”
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i’m seeing these guys Sunday and i’ve never heard a note. what should i expect?
really relatable lyrics about relationships and concise pop song structures
sigh. where is the fucking downvote button
tim- you’re a dick.
jeese, i must be, as it appears my dickery inspired you to create an account just to post that comment.
you could google “where did the downvote button go?” but it probably wouldn’t get any hits. I just googled “sigur ros live” and got NOTHING so don’t bother trying that one either
hahahah where is the up vote i definitely laughed
+1
Hah!
Andrew for the win….
Bring your Bible. Or Koran, or whatever. Cuz it’s a holy experience.
Expect a cover of “Hammer Smashed Face” by Cannibal Corpse
Eyjafjallafuckyeah
Sigur Ros is cool because they’re from Iceland. Iceland is beautiful. But I do think their music has slowly become more formula-based and that’s too bad. It happens to the best of them.
Did you listen to the above track?
flawless logic
This shit is awesome! My homies from the land of ice and fire doin’ good work.
If anyone is interested the word “Brennisteinn” means sulfur in english.
Dang 2013 will not let up with the awesome.
My ear just gasmed. I liked Valtari ok, but this is a perfect antithesis.
So happy to see this counterpoint to Valtari. I was not able to get into it; was too sleepy for me. But this just shook the dust off ma bones.
‘ . . . it’s a cryptic, muddy epic allegory about something or other.’ Love that description. Love the song too! Reminds me of a post apocalyptic zombie film.
this is the creepiest i’ve ever seen sigur ros
They were playing this one towards the end of their live set on the last tour to Australia. It was an awesome contrast to the stuff of Valtari, which I found to be a little too sleepy. Can’t wait to hear more.
saw them yesterday and they played 3 new songs, not including the one on fallon. lots of clangy percussion and sort of nine-inch-nails-ish. exciting.