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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sigur Rós<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">INNI<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(XL Recordings; November 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sigur Rós</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> will release
<b><i>Inni</i></b> – the definitive Sigur Rós live experience – this <b>November</b> on
<b>XL Recordings</b>. <i>Inni</i> is comprised of a double live album and seventy-five minute film of Sigur Rós’ last show before their well-documented “indefinite hiatus” at the end of 2008. Recorded and shot over two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace
at the close of the world tour around their fifth full length album, </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Međ suđ í eyrum viđ spilum endalaust</span></i></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
<i>Inni</i> sees the band at the peak of their powers, captured on film for the first time as a core four-piece since they were joined by string section amiina at the start of the century. Directed by
<b>Vincent Morisset</b> (Arcade Fire’s <i>Miroir Noir</i>), the film is set to debut at this year’s Venice Film Festival on September 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Inni</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is Sigur Rós' second live film following 2007's hugely-celebrated tour documentary
<i>Heima</i>. Whereas that film positioned the enigmatic group in the context of their Icelandic homeland, providing geographical, social and historical perspectives on their otherworldly music,
<i>Inni</i> focuses purely on the band's performance, and stands as a stark counterpoint to
<i>Heima’s</i> kaleidoscopic richness. Where <i>Heima</i> was lush and colorfully expansive,
<i>Inni</i> is spare and near-monochromatic in its tunnel vision. Filmed in a manner that invites both intimacy and claustrophobia,
<i>Inni</i> cocoons the viewer in a one-on-one relationship with the band, eschewing the audience for closeness, depicting how it feels for both band and fan to experience Sigur Rós live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The film’s elegance and atmosphere are enhanced by Morisset’s re-filming of the original digital footage on 16mm, which was then re-filmed again, sometimes through prisms
and other found objects, allowing <i>Inni</i> to look and feel like something recovered from the past. Interspersed with this is archival footage drawn from the band’s previous decade, dating back as far as 1998. This juxtaposition gives viewers the full
scope of Sigur Rós’ origins, evolution, originality and influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The live album
<i>Inni</i> – a first for the band – is comprised of the full set from Alexandra Palace, played in order with just one omission, and clocks in at one-and-three-quarter hours. Recorded by Sigur Rós’ in-house studio engineer
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Birgir Jón Birgisson</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
<i>Inni’s</i> live audio recording is far and away the best way of replicating the full-force effect of standing in front of one of the world’s most extraordinary bands for an evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When taken in together,
<i>Inni’s</i> film and live album give us an incredible account of one of the most celebrated and influential rock bands of recent years, showing where they’ve come from, where they’ve been, and like all things Sigur Rós, where it is they will be going next.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More details of how, when and where
<i>Inni</i> will enter the world will be made available shortly. In the meantime, the trailer is available to watch now at
</span><a href="http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.sigur-Rós.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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