Last week, we dutifully reported on some mysterious shit called Inni from Icelandic teen heartthrobs Sigur Rós, regardless of how much bullshit “information” there was to back it up at the time. That was cool with me, because information is for scientists, and scientists are nerds. This week’s all kinds of different, though. Because A) we’ve got lots of information about that mysterious clip now, and B) I’ve coincidentally undergone a personal revelation and don’t think that way about scientists anymore! So look out, internet. It’s raining facts:
The band has now made clear that Inni will consist of both a live film and a double live album, and that XL is releasing the thing in November (which is probably the Sigur Rósiest month there is). The film part is currently set to debut September 3 at the Venice Film Festival. The guy behind the camcorder is Vincent Morisset, who movied the band’s last show at London’s Alexandria Palace before their “indefinite hiatus” (and subsequent wonky-ass solo endeavors) was announced. Aside from being presently regarded as their last performance, that show is notable for being the first time in like 10 years that the band played as an unadorned four-piece without the help of Amiina, the string quartet they’d been using to turn their their twee songs into what my art school friend calls “compositions” since the early aughts.
As far as the audio part is concerned, the band’s usual engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson recorded the show, which runs 105 minutes and includes the entire London show minus one song. As far as the artsy film part goes, Morisset originally filmed the set digitally, then played that back and re-filmed it on 16mm, then played THAT back and re-filmed it again, sometimes through weird filters like “prisms and other found objects,” which, according to the press release, will make everything look all weird and claustrophobic and otherworldly and fucked-up (and according to that same art school friend, will look “sick”). So… get ready to feel sick, I guess.
• Sigur Rós: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk
• XL: http://www.xlrecordings.com
• Vincent Morrisset: http://www.vincentmorisset.com
