On August 30th, Jónsi will release a new album called ‘First Light’. Judging by the two previews he shared today, ‘Flicker’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’, we are looking at a classical and instrumental work. First, in fact, it was going to be the soundtrack for a video game in collaboration with the Myndstream platform.
The concept is zen-like, says the Sigur Rós frontman: “Writing this music in a time of man-made global upheaval and unrest, for a video game, I imagined ‘First Light’ as a momentary, fantastical, utopian world where everyone and everything lives together in eternal peace and harmony, choosing beauty over disorder, hope over fear, with our universal divine guardian angels watching over us and connecting us all as one through love, melody and music.”
This is what the tracklist looks like, starting with ‘Flicker’.
01 Flicker
02 First Light
03 Green Meadow
04 Clearing
05 Cherry Blossom
06 In Plain View
07 Wishful Thinking
08 Forest Trail
09 Undercurrent
10 Willow
11 Stillness
12 Floweret
13 Over the Fence
14 Flutterby
