Sigur Rós have introduced an experimental video collection for his or her album ‘ÁTTA’.
The movie experiment will function 10 music movies – one for every observe of ‘ÁTTA‘ – all created by completely different administrators with “no guidelines or boundaries”, based on their web site. The primary of the ten, ‘8’, was directed by Icelandic artist Rúrí, recognized for her political and environmental feminist activism. Her 1983 set up “Rainbow I” serves because the paintings for the album.
“Among the many many gems of the album ‘ÁTTA’, it was the music “8” that captivated me. It instantly related not solely to the current, but additionally to infinity. Catharsis – mushy, melancholic, highly effective and uplifting,” stated Rúrí.
The video follows the earlier two quick movies launched for ‘Andrá’ and ‘Blóðberg’. ‘Andrá’ was directed by Katya Gimro and Alexey Krupnik. About their selection of path, Gimro stated: “I needed to point out how Sigur Rós is the soundtrack of our lives by happiness, ache, hope, grief, and love. The quick documentary, Andrá, celebrates the best way through which Sigur Rós captures and channels the humanity that unites us all.”
‘Blóðberg’ was directed by the extremely acclaimed Swedish director, Johan Renck, who has labored on HBO’s Chernobyl in addition to movies for Madonna, New Order and others. The video includes a birds eye view of a barren land in reflection of socio-political and environmental anxieties.
In a four-star evaluate of the album, NME shared: ‘ÁTTA’ is a minimum of the band’s greatest album since 2005’s monolithic ‘Takk’ made them a family identify, and at most a document that offers Sigur Rós lots extra motive to exist in including some pure and pure soul to this chilly and unfeeling world.”
In different information, the band’s bassist, Georg Hólm, lately admitted that he thought-about leaving Iceland after the band was accused of tax evasion.
The Icelandic authorities accused the band of of evading 151m króna (£840,000) of tax between 2010 and 2014. Blaming an accounting error, they repaid the debt plus curiosity, however then confronted a second prosecution for a similar offence in 2020, which froze their belongings. They have since been acquitted.
Earlier this month, the band performed Mad Cool Pageant 2023 in Madrid.
