Amazing song and video by Sigur Rós. It’s for their song “Glósóli.” It’s a little long, clocking in at 6:14, but well worth the time.

These guys sing almost entirely in Icelandic, so it all sounded like gibberish to me. Well, I found out today that they’re actually singing gibberish—they made up a nonsensical language that they call Vonlenska (“Hopelandic”) that sounds like Icelandic, but doesn’t actually mean anything. They still sing a good bit of Icelandic, but they lapse into Vonlenska periodically, sometimes switching back and forth in the middle of songs. Interesting.

I also found out Sigur Rós wrote the entire soundtrack for a documentary about the misfits of Icelandic society. Like, the producer didn’t just use Sigur Rós songs—Sigur Rós wrote an all-original soundtrack for it, and a rather lengthy one at that.

Anyway, I know I just wrote about these guys a few posts back, but I’m still really enjoying them. Thanks to Nicole and Nick at work for sharing them with me. I hope Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky were a good trade, because these guys are amazing.

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