Having the privilege of seeing Sigur Rós live remains one of my best gig experiences ever, they are utterly spellbinding and special, and they are one of the few bands i could listen to all day, album after album, completely lost in their unworldly music. Given they are quite possible my favourite current band it seems inconceivable that they've hardly had a mention on this website, but we do mainly cover new releases, and there hasn't really been any since we started, as their last formal release was 'Kveikur' in 2013. .
Anyway they now have a new single, and its called 'Óveður', and it was used in part as a soundtrack to their recent 'Route One' project where they traveled around Iceland over a 24 hour period, streamed live and attempting to 'slow down' the world into 'Real Time'.
The video to 'Óveður' takes some watching, but i love the single, even if single releases are never enough when i listen to Sigur Rós, it just doesn't seem right to have them on for just 5 minutes. Here's the video:
Their Glastonbury appearances were really well received, and there were some lovely comments on Twitter that i couldn't even come close to emulating, so I'll quote one viewer - 'In this world of hatred, Sigur Rós sound like angels sent to make everything right. So beautiful.'
Sigur Ros play at the Citadel festival in London on the 17th July.