Jonsi and Alex – Riceboy Sleeps
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Editorial Review:
2009 release of this instrumental side project from Sigur Ros member Jon Thor Birgisson and collaborator Alex Somers. Riceboy Sleeps is human in a profound and verging-on spiritual way. It says nothing, literally, and yet living through its 68-minutes you emerge feeling much has been revealed. Its slowly evolving abstract landscapes are both edifying and life-affirming. The record works as a whole, and exists in a contemplative dream-state, unconstrained and mesmeric, seemingly outside time. Nine tracks. Parlophone.
Tracklist:
01 – Happiness
02 – Atlas Song
03 – Indian Summer
04 – Stokkseyri
05 – Boy 1904
06 – All the Big Trees
07 – Danell in the Sea
08 – Howl
09 – Sleeping Giant