Last night's wind storms also afforded Craig Shimala the opportunity to film some of nature's beauty, and set the resulting video to Sigur Ros. more ›

Iceland's Sigur Ros may be on hiatus but you wouldn't know it from the output of frontman Jónsi Birgisson. Last summer he put out the side-project Riceboy Sleeps with boyfriend/Parachutes-cofounder Alex Somers under the name Jonsí & Alex. And now Jonsí is back with Go, his first solo effort. If Riceboy Sleeps, a cool, ambient work of loops, strings, and noise with little in the way of vocals, worked for the slip into autumn and winter, then Go is the perfect album for the transition to spring. A joyous, buoyant, and sometimes raucous record, Go sounds (to borrow a phrase from Tankboy) like Sigur Ros snorted pixie sticks. Gone are the eight minute opuses. Instead, each song is its own short symphonic burst - only two songs barely edge past the five minute mark - perhaps due to producer Nico Mulhy but also a reflection of the trend that Sigur Ros has been working toward over the course of their recent albums. more ›

Amazing nature video of gorgeous Iceland plus Sigur Ros equals an arrow straight to our heart. [via] more ›

Leave it to the main mind behind Sigur Ros to bring us one of the more boisterous tracks we'll be playing to keep our spirits up this winter. But Jónsi (known by his parents as Jón Þór Birgisson) has brought a delightful new single in advance of his solo album Go which is due in March 2010. The track, "Boy Lilikoi," is sung fully in English; with Jónsi's voice, though, the ear catches only certain phrases like "You reignite/You growl, you howl, you show your teeth/You bite, it's alright." more ›

We've been smitten with the Icelandic band Sigur Ros ever since we first laid ears on their sophomore effort, 1999's Agætis Byrjun. That album's spacey, icy atmosphere did its cover art justice: it felt like music from another world that perfectly captured the feeling of being on the new millennium's doorstep. Over the course of four proper albums, a collection of singles, EPs, and soundtracks, Sigur Ros has captivated us every step of the way. The band has progressed from the ambient sounds of their first records and have let light shine on the dark corners of the music, especially on their fourth record, Takk, which remains in heavy rotation almost three years after its initial release. more ›