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"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 ...
Some lyrics were translated back into Icelandic, while some songs got completely new texts. [16] It is the band's first album to feature a track sung in English ("All Alright"). The first track on the album, " Gobbledigook ", premiered on Zane Lowe 's BBC Radio 1 music show in the UK on 27 May 2008.
Sigur Rós (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪːɣʏrous] ⓘ) [6] is an Icelandic post-rock band that formed in 1994 in Reykjavík. It comprises lead vocalist and guitarist Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson , bassist Georg Hólm , and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson .
The song title is a univerbation of hoppa í polla (the -a in hoppa is not pronounced), which is Icelandic for "hopping into puddles", and the lyrics are mainly in Icelandic, with some nonsensical phrases, a "language" the band calls Vonlenska ("Hopelandic"). As with many of the band's songs, it was given a nickname in the early stages of writing.
"Viðrar vel til loftárása" (Icelandic for "it's good weather for airstrikes"; pronounced [ˈvɪðrar vɛl tʰɪl ˈlɔftaurausa]) is a song written and recorded by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós for their second studio album Ágætis byrjun. The song appears as the seventh track on the album.
Sigur Rós performing during the Sigur Rós World Tour in 2013. "Brennisteinn" was released to overwhelmingly positive reception. Ian Cohen of Pitchfork compared the track to the sounds of the band's second and third studio albums Ágætis Byrjun and , stating that "Though their earliest work constitutes some of the most beautiful and ethereal music of the past two decades, Ágætis Byrjun and ...
"Glósóli" ([ˈkl̥ou̯ːˌsou̯lɪ], Icelandic for "Glowing Sole" [1]) is a song by Sigur Rós, released as part of their 2005 album Takk... Together with "Sæglópur" it was the first single released from the album, available as a download only release on iTunes in America and Europe respectively.
"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.