Kveikur
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| Studio album by Sigur Rós | ||||
| Released | June 12, 2013 (see release history) |
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| Recorded | 2012-13 at Sundlaugin Studio (Mosfellsbær, Iceland) Eldorado Recording Studios (Burbank, California) Pacifique Studios (Hollywood, California) |
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| Genre | Post-rock, dream pop, industrial rock | |||
| Length | 48:22 | |||
| Label | XL | |||
| Producer | Sigur Rós, Kjartan Sveinsson, Alex Somers | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Clash | 8/10 |
| Consequence of Sound | C+ |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 |
| NME | 8/10 |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.1/10 |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Slant Magazine | |
| This Is Fake DIY | 8/10 |
Kveikur (pronounced [ˈkvɛɪkʏr], fuse or candlewick) is the seventh studio album from Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. It was released on June 17, 2013 internationally and June 18, 2013 in the United States through XL Recordings. It is the first album to be fully released through XL after the band departed EMI and Parlophone during the label's acquisition by Universal Music Group in 2012. It is the first album since their debut, Von, not to feature Kjartan Sveinsson, following his departure in 2012. The cover is a photo by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.
Kveikur sees a new direction taken by Sigur Rós, both musically and thematically. The band has described the album's sound as "more aggressive" than any of their previous works.
Kveikur was officially unveiled by the band and label XL Recordings on March 22, 2013. The album's details, such as artwork, tracklist, and release date, were publicly announced, along with dates for the band's corresponding tour. An EP, entitled Brennisteinn and featuring lead single "Brennisteinn" and two Kveikur cuts "Hryggjarsula" and "Ofbirta", was also released on the same day to ticket holders of North American dates on the Sigur Rós World Tour. On the 11th of June the album was made available to stream live in its entirety online.
"Brennisteinn" was released as the lead single from Kveikur on March 25, 2013. The eight-minute music video for the song, directed by Andrew Huang, was released three days earlier during Kveikur's unveiling on March 22.
"Ísjaki" was released as a radio-only single from the album a month later on April 24, 2013. The song was also released early for download on iTunes through Kveikur's listing, before the album was released in June. The band also released an accompanying lyric video for the song on their YouTube channel on April 2. The video is also notably the band's first lyric video for a song since the band's formation in 1994.
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