NORWAY ROCK MAGAZINE
Godfathers of Nordic melancholic post-rock Sigur Rós were back in Oslo on Thursday night, 2 years since their last visit. To support the band’s new album «Átta», the Icelandic trio decided to tour with a 41-piece orchestra and explore the symphonic side of their catalogue.
Sigur Rós’s appropriately named eighth album comes a decade after the post-industrial rock of their 2013 «Kveikur». Again, we find ourselves responding to a record which is, in its own turn, a response to the emotional and even global challenges presented by the pandemic and climate change.