Jónsi announces 'First Light,' shares two tracks (listen)

Jónsi of Sigur Rós has announced a new album, First Light, which was originally conceived as a score for a video game but “evolved and transcended its initial purpose,” according to a press release. It comes out August 30 via the health and wellbeing music brand Myndstream and the soundtrack label Lakeshore Records (pre-order).

“Writing this music at a time of manmade global turmoil and unrest for a video game, I imagined First Light as a momentary fantastical, over-the-top, utopian world where everyone and everything lives together in everlasting peace and harmony,” Jónsi says. “Choosing beauty over disorder, hope over fear, our universal divine angel guardians watching over us and connecting us all as one through love, melody, and music.”

Two tracks are out now, “Flicker” and “Cherry Blossom,” and both are of the ambient, meditative, score-like variety.

Tracklist
1) Flicker
2) First Light
3) Green Meadow
4) Clearing
5) Cherry Blossom
6) In Plain View
7) Wishful Thinking
8) Forest Trill
9) Undercurrent
10) Willow
11) Stillness
12) Floweret
13) Over the Fence
14) Flutterby