Rökkurró self-release their new album in late 2014, on CD, Vinyl and Digitally. The album release was preceded by the debut single The Backbone (released on 11 August 2014).

Blue Skies is the second single to released on 15 September 2014.

'The Backbone' USA Premiere - Under The Radar:
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_roekkurro_the_backbone_video/

'The Backbone' UK Premiere - Q Magazine:
http://www.qthemusic.com/4575/watch-rokkurros-new-video-for-the-backbone/ 

'Killing Time' - The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2013/oct/29/rkkurr-killing-time-new-music-from-iceland

"Blue Skies is one of the first tracks we wrote for the new album. It came quite easily to us at the start but it was somehow way more of a pop song than any of the songs we'd written before. But in the studio the band had a disagreement about some elements in the song and we couldn't really agree on anything. This song kind of turned into a ticking bomb, whenever somebody mentioned... But after some months we noticed how much we missed it. So we decided to rearrange it and make some drastic changes to be able to make it fit with the other tracks on the album," explains Rökkurró vocalist Hildur Kristín Stefánsdóttir.

"The lyrics talk about fulfilling your dreams and the fact that these dreams can die, if you don't nurture them. I was having a bad day and had this feeling of when things are slipping out of your hands. I noticed that the dress I was wearing had a  blue skies pattern on it and it straight away inspired me to write this line: "Blue skies, all your dreams are dying, blue skies, come and bring them back to life." It was an instant reminder of how you sometimes just need to snap out of it and remember that blue skies are always there," continues Stefánsdóttir.

"We have performed the track a couple of times live and it was amazing to feel the energy in the venue completely changing. Many people came afterwards and talked to us about this song. I feel people can relate very much to it."


Some praise for Rökkurró:  

“Warm, wonderfully textured” -  Lauren Down on The Guardian (UK)

"Warm and inviting like a thermal spring" - NME (UK)  

"If Rökkurró can keep up this kind of achievement, they’ll soon find themselves standing proudly next to their nation’s greats." - The Line Of Best Fit (UK)  

"Their music does go some way to representing that image in sound, complete with the cold landscape of Iceland outside because the Reykjavik residents create that equally grand and delicate sound that, for some reason, only Nordic bands seem capable of pulling off."  - CMU Daily (UK)

“Rökkurró have a cello-playing frontwoman with a lovely voice and songs to match.” - Clash Magazine (UK)

"Beautiful orchestral sounds" - KEXP Radio (US)

Blue Skies

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unreleased track.

Takahiro Kido: Guitar, Glockenspiel, Synthesizer, Bass
Yuki Murata: Piano, Flute, Organ
Utaka Fujiwara: Violin, Viola
Tadashi Yoshikawa: Drums, Percussion

Composed by Takahiro Kido

Recorded by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata
Mixed by Takahiro Kido
Mastered by KASHIWA Daisuke

Produced by Ricco Label
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blue flowers (Anoice's unreleased song)

First track of the new EP "ur" by Giranice

Motondo

Confide

2010’s critically acclaimed album

First release as a double gatefold LP incls. 4th side cover artwork etching

“blending a cocktail of folk and post-rock with a hint of Victorian curiosities, ‘I, Vigilante’ is a finely crafted masterpiece” – 9/10 Rock Sound Magazine

“They’d be hard pushed to further the majesty seen here on what is a wondeful album”  -8/10 - Drowned in Sound

“From the outset, Crippled Black Phoenix are on stunning form” – The Line Of Best Fit

“six towering epics given vigour by the fury of hardcore, the communal euphoria of Black Mountian-like prog and that same twinkle of hope found in Mogwai's raging beauty” – 8/10 NME

Crippled Black Phoenix's majestic 2006 release 'I, Vigilante' available on vinyl for the first time, as double LP, with 3 sides of music and a fourth side featuring a stunning cover artwork etching on 180g black vinyl.

Order here: http://bit.ly/1J8Gt7U

I, Vigilante

We Forgotten Who We Are

Crippled Black Phoenix - We Forgotten Who We Are (from I, Vigilante)

Ólafur Arnalds - So Far Ft. Arnor Dan (Broadchurch)

Is This Me?

Dead At A Waterpark

Hugar ft. Arnór Dan / Waves

Song by Bergur Þórisson / Pétur Jónsson / Arnór Dan
Lyrics by Arnór Dan Arnarson
Performed by Hugar & Arnór Dan
Strings: Viktor Orri Árnason
Drums: Helgi Kristjánsson
Recorded & produced by Hugar
Mixed by Bergur Þórisson / Addi 800 / Pétur Jónsson
Mastered by Mandy Parnell



WAVES

I have held the hands of loss
Felt them fade away
With wistful smiles we toss grey hours of betray 
Lead the way
Lead the way

We raise our arms above and leap down cold rocks
How pure
The joyful sands embrace
The shore longs for us and cleans decay
Lead the way
Beneath the waves

Can I imitate the waves? 
Can I recreate an anchor?
In the darkest depths of memory

Can I imitate the waves?
Can I recreate an anchor?
In the darkest depths of sea

Cross your arms across your chest
Deepest dark awaits 
Breathe in final beams of dawn 
Let them dress your heavy heart 
Lead the way
Beneath the waves of us

Can I imitate the waves?
Can I recreate an anchor?
In the darkest depths of memory

Can I imitate the waves?
Can I recreate an anchor?
In the darkest depths of sea

I will imitate the waves
I will recreate an anchor
In the darkest depths of sea

I will imitate the waves
I will recreate a fall
Into the darkest depths of sea

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