Jónsi has announced a new album, First Light, which is due for release on August 30. The follow-up to the Sigur Rós frontman’s 2021 surprise record Obsidian was originally conceived as the score for a video game. It’s being released by Myndstream, a music and wellness platform, in partnership with Lakeshore Records. Listen to the new tracks ‘Flicker’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’ below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
In a statement, 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.”
Last year, Sigur Rós released ÁTTA, their first new album in a decade.
First Light Cover Artwork:
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