Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
(English spelling: Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust)

Sigur Rós will be releasing their fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (English translation: with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly), worldwide the week of June 23.
The first track from the album, entitled "Gobbledigook," is available worldwide for free download via SigurRos. com.
The video for the song is also on the website.

A pre-sale for the album will begin on SigurRos. com on June 2. A special deluxe edition of the album to be released later in the year — featuring a "Making Of… " book, a film and more — will also be available to pre-order on the band's website as of June 2.
A stream of Með suð í eyrum… will be available to hear on SigurRos. com on June 9. Lastly, a plethora of Sigur Rós goodies — exclusive clips, information on tickets for upcoming shows throughout the year, etc.
— will be available to those who sign up for the mailing list on SigurRos. com.

Með suð í eyrum… was co-produced with the band by renowned producer Flood, and was recorded in New York City (at Sear Sound Studios), London (at Assault and Battery Studios and Abbey Road), Reykjavík (at Álafoss, the band's studio, as well as a church in Reykjavík), and Havana, Cuba. Whereas Sigur Rós' last release — the critically-acclaimed documentary Heima, chronicling their free tour throughout Iceland — took the band to their homeland, their newest creation, Með suð í eyrum… is the first album in the band's career to be made outside of Iceland. It is also their first album to feature vocalist Jón "Jónsi" Thor Birgisson's vocals in English on one track (the remainder are sung in Icelandic).

Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós decided to adopt a looser approach in the writing and creation of their brilliant fifth album. The material for the album was written, recorded and mixed entirely in 2008 and is being released just one month after its completion. The album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, upfront presence not found in previous Sigur Rós recordings, moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. The record also contains some of the most joyous music the band has ever recorded.

Opener "Gobbledigook" sets the tone for Með suð í eyrum… with its shifting acoustic guitars, playful vocals, time signature swings and swirling percussion, while "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" ("Within me a lunatic sings") sparkles as one of the most anthemic songs Sigur Rós have ever written. "Festival" is epic in its elation and scope, "Illgresi" features one of Jónsi's finest vocal melodies over a lone acoustic guitar, and "Ára bátur" is the largest musical undertaking in the band's career, as it was recorded live in one take with the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir, a total of 90 people playing at the same time. The band also utilized the talents of their string-quartet friends Amiina, as well as a five-piece brass section on certain tracks, in addition to introducing the Mellotron into their writing/recording process for the first time on this album, highlighted on one of the most tender and beautiful songs on the record, "Fljótavík."

The spirit of Með suð í eyrum… is best captured by the album's stunning artwork, contributed by acclaimed visual artist Ryan McGinley. McGinley first met the band when he photographed Jónsi six years ago; the album cover was taken from a flyer for McGinley's most recent exhibit, "I Know Where the Summer Goes," which happened to find its way into Jónsi's inbox just as the band was deciding on how to best visually represent their new collection of songs. The result is a perfect synergy of the aural and the visual.


The tracklisting for Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly) is…

1.

Gobbledigook
2.

Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
3.

Góðan daginn
4.

Við spilum endalaust
5.

Festival
6.

Með suð í eyrum
7.

Ára bátur
8.

Illgresi
9.

Fljótavík
10.

Straumnes
11.

All Alright

Sigur Rós will be playing shows all over the globe throughout the summer and fall to preview material from Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, including a special set at this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

The tour dates are:

The June tour dates…
6/5/08 Guadalajara, MEX @ Teatro Degollado
6/7/08 Tepoztlan, MEX @ Festival La Colmena
6/8/08 Tijuana, MEX @ Planeta Tijuana
6/11/08 Omaha, NE @ Orpheum Theater
6/12/08 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
6/14/08 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
6/16/08 New York, NY @ Grand Ballroom
6/20/08 Neuhausen ob Eck @ Southside Festival
6/22/08 Scheesel, Bremen @ Hurricane Festival

More worldwide tour dates will be announced soon.

New video (warning- some nudity!) for the first single can be found here:

http://sigurros.com/dvd3.asp

Also a free download of "Gobbledigook"

WOW - this is really a new sound for Sigur Rós..... I like it.
And the video is really cool - it has nudity but not necessarily in a sexual way. It's more like a bunch of people "getting in touch with nature".

Thanks, I saw this about a week ago and thought people were joking around so i didnt' bother checkin up on it. gobbledigook sounds made up.


i like the song though

sigur ros and naked man butt. how can you possibly go wrong with that combination?

excellent! I've just started really getting into them big time, and now they have a new album coming out. I knew they were working on one, but didn't realize it would be out so soon. Exciting!

ah. very upbreat. great song. and great genitals!

I love the video, gorgeous photography. Not sure about the song yet.

Sorry Steven ~ I missed your thread (and posted the same thing today). The video is joyful and gorgeous ~ very Summer Solstice Celebratory. Maybe the mods can redirect my thread to yours. thanks for posting!!! Where is "nana?
I think Mach would like this too! I love the album cover and the one for the single is just beautiful.

There be a lot of wee wee's flyin around on that video..


wish the chick would shave that bush

Can't wait!

I've got all their albums.

I loved () and I reallly didn't expect to
I hope to hear their new one too

what we think?


i think its pretty damn good

Sdldawn said:

whole thing leak or something?

yeah.. it was streaming for free i believe also


sounds good!

Sdldawn said:

almost done dl'ing it now

don't remember if there was another more recent thread for this, but here's the AMG review


(no star rating yet, as it's from the amg blog)

http://blog.allmusic.com/...endalaust/

With their fifth full-length album Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translated as With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly) Sigur Rós has taken the poppy, sunshine-y leanings of their previous album a step further into the light. The band has always been known for otherworldly soundscapes and while there is enough of that here to keep the faithful happy, the band also writes straight forward, three minute pop songs like the incredible catchy, sticky sweet duo (Gobbldigook, Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur) that kick the album off like the first rays of the morning sun blazing through your bedroom window. That feeling continues on through the album as both the joyously soaring vocals and the buoyant melodies keep things floating happily on air. The arrangement of sound is quite different from previous albums too. In the past their sound was characterized by a great wash of instruments merging together into great, gently heaving walls and waves of sound, on this album for the most part you can pick out individual instruments whether it’s the acoustic guitar that underpins many of the songs (and provides the main backing on the intimate and quite lovely, and quite un-Sigur Rós-like, Illgresi) or the lone piano that begins Ára Bátur (which does expand out into an epic undertaking with over 90 people including the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy’s Choir eventually playing on the track). Despite the few tracks that reach for the heavens, for the first time the band sounds grounded and stripped down. Songs like Fesitval with it’s pounding bass line and charging drums or the melancholy album closer All Alright that’s based on a lonely piano figure (and features lyrics sung in English for the first time in the group’s history) are firmly tethered to the earth and shorn of excess artifice. Surely it’s no coincidence that the album art features the members of the band fully naked. In the past it was easy to be impress with the sound of Sigur Rós, to be carried away by the grandeur of the band and be hit hard by the titanic emotions. On Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust you can really hear the human hearts behind the wall of sound and while the emotional impact is on a smaller scale, somehow it is even more affecting.
[Edited 6/23/08 3:16am]

I'm currently listening to the album and I'm really liking it so far.... This is probably their most accessible album yet.... I also like the fact that most of the songs have actual lyrics, instead of that gibberish language they used on () and on some songs on Takk.... So far only one song, "Festival", has made-up lyrics...
Of course to most of y'all the Icelandic lyrics probably sound like gibberish too ... but I understand them, although Jónsi's soft pronouncation and weird accent makes it difficult at times to understand everything... But yeah, I like Jónsi's lyrics because they evoke such powerful images in your head, especially songs like "Góðan daginn" and "Með suð í eyrum"....
I suspect "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" is Jónsi talking about his boyfriend... lyrics like "Þegar við kyssumst /varirnar brenndu" (when we kiss/lips burning) and "Ég sé þig nakinn" (I see you naked)....

But anyway, I think this album is gonna be very succesful, at least compared to their previous albums....

P.S. Björk and Sigur Rós are playing a free concert in the Laugardalur outdoors area inside Reykjavík this Saturday evening. I'm certainly looking forward to it.

purplehippieonthe1 said:

One of my dream concerts would be to see them together. ENJOY!!!!

From their site!

SIGUR RÓS AND BJÖRK WEBCAST CONCERT ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WEBSITE THIS SATURDAY (JUNE 28)

Sigur Rós is pleased to announce that Nat Geo Music, the music division of the National Geographic Entertainment, will webcast the entire open air Náttúra concert live from Iceland on Saturday, June 28, 2008 starting at 8pm London, and 7pm GMT.

Go to the Nat Geo Music site for more information on the concert and the webcast.

If you miss the live webcast, there will be an on-demand stream available from National Geographic's web site next week