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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.
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 .
Sigur Rós's fifth studio album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, was released in 2008 with "Gobbledigook", "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" and "Við spilum endalaust" all released as singles.
"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] It comprises a selection of songs from previous EPs and albums [2] released after the band signed with EMI's owned label Parlophone:
Hvarf/Heim is a compilation album by Sigur Rós.Its original CD release comprises two discs: Hvarf contains studio versions of previously unreleased songs (with the exception of "Hafsól", which was released as the B-side of "Hoppípolla" in 2005), while Heim contains live acoustic versions of songs already released.
Ágætis byrjun (Icelandic: [ˈaːucaitɪs ˈpɪrjʏn], A good beginning) [1] is the second studio album by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, released on 12 June 1999.The album was recorded between the summer of 1998 and the spring of 1999 with producer Ken Thomas.