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Icelandic spook-rockers Sigur Ros will stream their new album 'Valtari' on Thursday this week through various online sources - one of which being Gigwise.
The band has launched the countdown to 'Valtari Hour' on their website today, counting down to 7pm on Thursday 17 May, 2012 when the band will play their sixth studio album online in its entirety.
Sigur Ros return this year after taking a fourth year break after last album, 'Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust'. Frontman Jonsi recently revealed that the band always knew a reunion would be on the cards.
"I think we always knew we would get back together," Jonsi told Gigwise. "I just think we needed a long break after we had been touring so much, for many years. I think we were tired and we had a break because everyone was having a baby!
"I used the time to make an album with my boyfriend and also my solo album, so we took a good break but it was really nice to come back with the guys again and start working. It felt like coming home."
He also spoke of recording album, and including boyfriend Alex Somers in the production process on the new record.
"This album was so scatterbrained, and made over five or six years and was very confusing in a way. We recorded two songs in 2007 in a studio in London with a choir and then we were recycling some of our old material and we scrapped that and a few months ago we decided we decided we did want to make another album," he added. "Alex helped a lot with focusing and constructing. We just handed him a lot of weird sound-files and he told us what we needed to do."
Check back on Gigwise at 7pm on Thursday 17 May, 2012 to listen to 'Valtari' in its entirety.
