Jónsi & Alex Somers - Riceboy Sleeps (Vinyl)

Jónsi & Alex Somers - Riceboy Sleeps (Vinyl)

Jónsi and Alex Somers worked on the album that became RICEBOY SLEEPS on and off for almost five years. After taking a month to finish and mix it, the result is an album that sounds remarkably like the band Jónsi fronts, Sigur Ros. A lot of times side projects serve as outlets for music that the band would never attempt; Riceboy Sleeps sounds like it's made of stray Sigur Ros moments the group spent tuning orchestras, warming up vocal choirs or checking levels. 

The songs on the album drift on shifting waves of strings (provided by longtime SR collaborators Amiina), children's choirs, treated pianos and underwater soundscapes. The music Jonsi and Alex create is ambient but not boring, quiet but not sleepy. 

Track Listing:

1. Happiness
2. Atlas Song
3. Indian Summer
4. Stokkseyri
5. Boy 1904
6. All the Big Trees
7. Daníell in the Sea
8. Howl
9. Sleeping Giant