When Jon "Jonsi" Birgisson visited Soundcheck last month, the Sigur Ros frontman gave our listeners a sneak preview of his upcoming solo album, Go. The Soundcheck staff, on the other hand, got ...
Go his first solo album, he envisioned a record that would provide a home for some of the songs he’d written over the years that were never quite right for the band. Jónsi originally imagined it would ...
If some longtime fans are disappointed, it’s only because they crave the inscrutability, the self-delusion that Sigur Rós’s music arrived from some exotic domain further away than a mere plane flight.
Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós has released his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, today via Krunk. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing below. Also, yesterday we posted our review of the ...
Jonsi is the nickname of Jon Thor Birgisson, the enigmatic Sigur Ros singer. In Sigur Ros, his music is ethereal, sprawling and mysterious — it's even sung in a language of his own devising. But Jonsi ...