Sigur Rós Announces Live Film, Album

Watch advance clip, below.

By Blurt Staff

Sigur Rós will be releasing their first-ever live film and double live album in the form of Inni in North America on November 15^th on XL Recordings.  A first glimpse at Inni was presented in the film's trailer, up on sigur-ros.co.uk.  Now, the first proper excerpt from the film is premiering today on NPR.org for the song "Festival," from their 2008 album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. 

Sigur Rós: Festival from Sigur Rós on Vimeo.

A free audio download of "Festival" is also available now via Sigur Rós' website - http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk . The album will come in multiple formats - see tracklisting and details below.

Recorded and shot over two nights at London's Alexandra Palace at the close of the 2008 world tour around their fifth full length album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, Inni sees the band at the peak of their powers, captured on film for the first time as a core four-piece since they were joined by string section amiina at the start of the century.  Directed by Vincent Morisset (Arcade Fire's Miroir Noir), with film manipulations by Godspeed You! Black Emperor visual collaborator Karl Lemieux, Inni is Sigur Rós' second live film following 2007's hugely-celebrated tour documentary Heima.  Whereas that film positioned the enigmatic group in the context of their Icelandic homeland, providing geographical, social and historical perspectives on their otherworldly music, Inni focuses purely on the band's performance, and stands as a stark counterpoint to Heima's kaleidoscopic richness.  Filmed in a manner that invites both intimacy and claustrophobia, Inni cocoons the viewer in a one-on-one relationship with the band, eschewing the audience for closeness, depicting how it feels for both band and fan to experience Sigur Rós live.

The live album Inni - a first for the band - is comprised of the full set from Alexandra Palace, played in order with just one omission, and clocks in at one-and-three-quarter hours.  Recorded by Sigur Rós' in-house studio engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson, Inni's live audio recording is far and away the best way of replicating the full-force effect of standing in front of one of the world's most extraordinary bands for an evening. 

A full track listing for Inni's live album component is below.  In addition to songs from the show, Inni features a previously unreleased song called "Lúppulagid" which is used over the credits of the film and as the final non-live track on the album.

TRACK LISTINGS:

FILM                                                     BONUS TRACKS

ny batterí                                              glósóli

svefn-g-englar                                       vid spilum endalaust

fljótavík                                                hafsól  

inní mér syngur vitleysingur                    all alright

sæglópur

festival

e-bow

popplagid

lúppulagid

ALBUM DISC ONE                                ALBUM DISC TWO

svefn-g-englar                                       sæglópur

glósóli                                                  festival

ny batterí                                              hafsól  

fljótavík                                                all alright

vid spilum endalaust                              popplagid

hoppípolla                                            lúppulagid         (bonus track)

med blódnasir

inní mér syngur vitleysingur

e-bow

FORMATS:

1/         Standard CD/DVD Edition - 
- 1 x DVD - 75 min. full HD feature in 5.1 Dolby Audio, NTSC format + 4 bonus performances
- 2 x CD - Double live album

2/         Blu-Ray/CD Edition -
- 1 x Blu-Ray Disc - 75 min. HD feature in 5.1 Dolby Audio, NTSC format, + 4 bonus performances

- 2 x CD - Double live album 

3/         Triple Vinyl/DVD Edition - CLEAR VINYL LIMITED TO 3000 COPIES!

- 3 x 150g audiophile quality vinyl with printed inner sleeves housed within a single outer jacket made from heavyweight board

- Digital download code for double live album

- 1 x DVD - 75 min. HD feature in 5.1 Dolby Audio + 4 bonus performances

4/         Digital Edition
- film version = 75 min. full HD feature in 5.1 Dolby Audio
- audio version = 15 track, double live album

5/         The Limited Special Edition -  Exclusive to sigur-ros.co.uk

This edition is packaged in a 7" x 7" x 1" box, printed inside and containing;

- An exclusive and unique-to-each-box artefact from the show itself in a numbered, printed envelope

- One-sided 7" coloured vinyl with unreleased track "Lúppulagid", with etching on reverse.

- 1 x DVD - 75 min. HD feature in 5.1 Dolby Audio + 4 bonus performances. (box will include both NTSC and PAL formats) (track listing link)

- DVD exclusive 5 minute short "Klippa" 

- 2 x CD - Double live album

- All discs are housed in a printed 7" sized 4 panel slitpack

- Black opaque envelope with 10 pieces of A5 light sensitive paper with instructions and special url for posting your homemade images to the sigur-ros.co.uk website

- 4 x  7" sized photographic prints

- Enamel "INNI" pin badge