Sigur Rós' Jónsi Announces New Album 'First Light' With Singles Flicker And Cherry Blossom
Monday, 22 July 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Sigur Ros' Jónsi has announced his fourth studio album.
'First Light' will arrive through music for health and wellbeing provider Myndstream in collaboration with Lakeshore Records on August 30, following up the Icelandic musician, singer and composer's 2021 LP 'Obsidian'.
Starting its life as a video game score, the record will feature the two newly shared singles Flicker and Cherry Blossom. Both orchestral tracks, the former is a climactic, atmospheric offering, while the latter is a more ambient affair that centres around a gentle piano solo. Explaining the album's inspiration, Jónsi said:
"Writing this music at a time of manmade global turmoil and unrest for a video game, I imagined 'First Light' as a momentary fantastical, over-the-top, utopian world where everyone and everything lives together in everlasting peace and harmony. Choosing beauty over disorder, hope over fear, our universal divine angel guardians watching over us and connecting us all as one through love, melody, and music."
Two more singles, Forest Trill and Undercurrent, are set to be released soon.
Sigur Rós, meanwhile, released their first studio album in 10 years, 'Átta', in June 2023. They have US and European tour dates in the diary for later this year.
'First Light' tracklist:
1. Flicker
2. First Light
3. Green Meadow
4. Clearing
5. Cherry Blossom
6. In Plain View
7. Wishful Thinking
8. Forest Trill
9. Undercurrent
10. Willow
11. Stillness
12. Floweret
13. Over the Fence
14. Flutterby
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