News Here are Happy’s Best Albums of 2023 by Tammy Moir From deep introspective tunes to mixes that blend genres, this year’s music scene has it all To say that 2023 defied our expectations is putting it mildly, artists burst onto…
Features The 10 most groundbreaking post-rock albums of all time by Luke Saunders What is post-rock? Most people answer with an illusory, “Yeah, it’s like… Sigur Ros right?”. The truth is, the genre was coined in 1994 by Simon Reynolds in the pages of…
Features Why It Mattered: Sigur Rós – ‘Ágætis byrjun’ by Luke Saunders Few albums have so profoundly terraformed the landscape in which they were born and placated contemporary listeners like Ágætis byrjun. The sophomore album from celestial Icelandic outfit Sigur Rós translates…
Lists Kick back to the most relaxing music that has ever been made by Luke Saunders Neuroscience recently revealed that listening to relaxing music can relieve anxiety by up to 65 percent. From the mellow-suave of jazz to the vast toll of ambient drums music has…
Lists News The 5 gigs you can’t miss at VIVID Sydney 2019 by Evie Weily Sydney’s beloved VIVID festival is returning for their epic 11th year, and the annual celebration of lights, music and art has unveiled an incredible lineup that features some of the…
News Be lulled into deep meditation with this mixtape from Liminal, Sigur Rós’ side project by Lara Smetannikov Liminal (made up of Jonsi from Sigur Rós, Alex Somers and Paul Corley) just released the second instalment of their ambient, “endless mixtape.” “liminal is more than an ambient sigur rós…
News Sigur Rós collaborates with tech start-up Magic Leap on new VR experience by Molly Lasker Tech start-up Magic Leap has teamed up with Icelandic megastars Sigur Rós to create a new audiovisual augmented reality experience called Tónandi. Tónandi is the result of a half-decade long collaboration…
News Watch Sigur Rós break hearts as they close out the inaugural edition of their own festival by Happy While you were busy existing in that awkward drunken haze that exists between Christmas and New Years Eve where you’re not really sure what day it is or whether it’s…
News Have your minds torn and hearts broken by Sigur Rós’ full set with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra by Happy In case you missed it, an entire performance from Sigur Rós at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA was streamed live via Pitchfork. It was back in April, sadly falling a…
News Sigur Rós get their own brand of “medicated gumdrops” (*cough* weed candy) by Happy There’s something celestially psychedelic about Sigur Rós’ music, even though you wouldn’t call them a psych band as such. Jónsi’s ethereal vocals paired with the band’s sprawling instrumentation is a hallucinatory…
News The geniuses behind Planet Earth have joined the geniuses of Sigur Ròs to create a genius remix to the genius track Hoppípolla by Agnes O'Dwyer Sigur Rós, The Icelandic band we’ve come to know through like, every movie soundtrack ever, has just recorded a reworked version of Hoppípolla for Planet Earth 2. Sigur Rós…
Lists Wish you were still at Splendour? We got you. Here’s our National Sales Manager’s ten best moments from Splendour 2016 by Happy It’s been just over a week since we found our way home from Splendour in the Grass, and we’re still recovering. Luckily, between the glitter, belting heat and marble-sized collections of…
Lists Abandoned water tank reverb? Samples from live surgery? Here’s a list of 10 albums recorded in truly weird locations by Riley Fitzgerald We’ve heard all about classic albums cut in secluded cabins, basements, abandoned factories, gothic castles and Tudor homes. Yet there exist even more exotic spaces where artists have captured their…
