New Music and Tour from Sigur Ros

Over the past year Icelandic Ambient rockers Sigur Ros took a little time off to recoup and have babies, all except lead singer Jonsi; but the band is back and ready to rock with a new album and tour. First the new album “Valtari” will be released on May 28; and then the band will tour North America and Europe over the summer.

“Valtari” was recorded in the band’s own studio – Sundlaugin – formerly a swimming pool. “Valtari” means steamroller in Icelandic. Bass man Georg Holm said the album is like, “looking at an old landscape painting;” and lead singer Jonsi Birgisson called it, “an avalance in slow motion.”

Keeping with tradition, there will be no English on the new album. Sigur Ros albums are sung either in Icelandic or a language created by Jonsi.

Sigur Ros tour dates:
July 30 at the Mann Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA
July 31 at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY
Aug. 1 on Echo Beach at Ontario Place in Toronto, Canada
Aug. 3 at Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal, Canada at the Osheaga Festival
Aug. 4 & 5 in Grant Park in Chicago at Lollapalooza
Aug. 8 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA
Aug. 9 at the Edgefield Winery in Troutdale, OR
Aug 12 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 24 at the Rock En Seine Festival Grounds in Paris, France
Aug. 25 at Steinberggasse in Winterhur, Switzerland for the Winterhurer Musikfestwocken
Aug. 28 & 29 at Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sept. 2 at Castello Scaligero in Verona, Italy at A Perfect Day Festival
Sept. 5 at the Krizanke Auditorium in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sept. 7 at the Templehof Airport in Berlin, Germany for the Berlin Festival
Sept. 9 at Robin Hill Country Park in Isle of Wight, England for Bestival
Sept. 16 & 17 at the Tinning Plant of ArcelorMittal Poland in Krakow, Poland for the Sacrum-Profanum Festival