Sigur Rós Gets Bookish With In A Frozen Sea :: Music News :: Articles

As summer comes creeping in (for half the world, anyway), Sigur Rós fans have a new opportunity to seek refuge from heat and humidity in the glacial world of Iceland’s most famous band. In A Frozen Sea: A Year with Sigur Rós chronicles the homecoming leg of the band’s 2006 tour in 32 pages of intimate photographs, quotes, and commentary from the band members themselves.

Pairing the stunning visuals of the Icelandic landscape—from capital city Reykjavik to more rural settings featuring mountains, glaciers, and (hopefully!) fjords—with the band’s distinctly dreamy orchestral rock, the book seems likely to serve double duty as an artful peek into the life of the music and as a superfan collector’s item.

In A Frozen Sea is the first issue of Artist in Residence, a music-centric new quarterly music publication, and comes in a standard “classic” edition and the mega-collector’s grade “limited edition” (featuring vinyl versions of four previous Sigur Rós albums). It’s available now through A+R’s official website and select retail stores. A+R’s website also features a bevy of interactive content for Sigur Rós fans, including streaming album content, music videos, community message boards, and more.

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