Sigur Rós’ Jónsi announces “utopian” new album ‘First Light’ with singles ‘Flicker’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’
nme.comSigur Rós frontman Jónsi has announced a new album ‘First Light’, alongside two new singles ‘Flicker’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’. Check them out below.Revealed today (July 19), ‘First Light’ will be Jónsi’s fourth studio album, following the Icelandic musician’s ‘Obsidian‘, which came in October 2021.
It’s set for release August 30 via health and wellbeing music provider Myndstream in collaboration with Lakeshore Records and is available for pre-order here.To celebrate the announcement, Jónsi has shared two lead singles, ‘Flicker’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’.
Both impressionistic orchestral tracks, ‘Flicker’ is ambient and atmospheric, gradually building a chorus of flutes and birdsong, before collapsing into a harmonious string finale.
While ‘Cherry Blossom’ is more meditative, built around a peaceful piano solo.Jónsi originally began writing the album as a video game soundtrack, but it eventually evolved into a larger project that seeks to explore peace, hope and connection through music.“Writing this music at a time of manmade global turmoil and unrest for a video game,” Jónsi said, “I imagined ‘First Light’ as a momentary fantastical, over-the-top, utopian world where everyone and everything lives together in everlasting peace and harmony.
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