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"Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" (Icelandic for "Within me a lunatic sings" [1]) is the second track on Sigur Rós' fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. It is the first single from the album and was released on 8 September 2008. [2] A music video for "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" was also released.
The video for "Gobbledigook" was released on 27 May 2008 on sigurros.com. [4] It was filmed in May 2008 by Arni & Kinski, who has previously directed the band's "Glósóli", "Viðrar vel til loftárása" and "Hoppípolla" videos, as well as collaborating with Ryan McGinley, whose recent work has been used as the cover art for Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust and the consequent singles.
The video was directed by Icelandic directors Stefán Árni Þorgeirsson and Sigurður Kjartansson. The video won an Icelandic Music Award for "Best Video" in 2002. [4] Music magazine NME ranked the video 9th on their list of "100 Greatest Music Videos". [5] The idea for the video came from Sigur Rós' former drummer Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson. [6]
[27] The final track "All Alright" is the band's first to be sung in English, though all the other lyrics are in Icelandic. Sigur Rós performing in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 2008 The band were announced as a headlining act for the 2008 Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay , Australia, [ 28 ] [ failed verification ] Latitude Festival ...
Sigur Rós kick off a European tour tonight in London. Ahead of it, the group shared its first single with multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson since he left the band in 2012. The single ...
"Sæglópur" (Icelandic for "lost at sea" or "lost seafarer") is a song by Sigur Rós, released in 2006 as a single from the 2005 album Takk.... Parts of the song are in Icelandic, although a lengthy portion is in Hopelandic, a "language" of nonsense words selected by the band that sound similar to Icelandic.
"Svefn-g-englar" was released as a single in 1999, with two studio recordings — "Svefn-g-englar" (an Icelandic pun mixing "sleepwalkers" and "sleep angels") and "Viðrar vel til loftárása" ("good weather for airstrikes"), both from Ágætis byrjun — and two songs recorded live at the Icelandic Opera House located in Reykjavík — "Nýja lagið" ("new song"), which was never recorded in ...
We Play Endlessly is a compilation album by the post-rock group Sigur Rós. It was released on 31 January 2009 in the UK as a free covermount with The Independent national newspaper. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]