May 2008

Translated into English as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly" with the English spelling of the Icelandic album title being 'Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust'.

Whereas their last release 'Heima' took the band to their homeland, their newest creation is the first album in the band's career to be made outside of Iceland. It is also their first album to feature vocalist Jónsi's vocals in English on one track while the rest of the tracks 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 Með Suð. 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.

This fifth full-length album from the Icelandic post-rock heroes, whose title translates as 'With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly', is the follow-up to their double EP set 'Hvarf'/'Heim' from 2007. Working for the first time with an outside producer - the famed Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins) - they have made the most joyous, exuberant, widescreen record of their career, as well as performing a song in English for the first time. Includes the free, download-only single 'Gobbledigook'.

Emerging from the chilly climes of Iceland, the Sigur Ros sound is characterized by slow, swooping waves of atmospheric guitar and keyboards that move over their epic tone-poems like windstorms over a wintry plain. Hushed vocals are delivered in a pidgin language the group dubbed "Hopelandic." Endorsed by the likes of Radiohead, they became international critical darlings and hipster faves in 2001 with their breakthrough recording AGAETIS BYRJUN.