Jonsi

Jónsi, born Jón Þór Birgisson in 1975, is the voice of Sigur Rós, the Icelandic post-rock band, and for most people that voice is the whole spell: a falsetto that floats so high it barely sounds human, over guitar he plays with a cello bow. So when he stepped out on his own with Go on 5 April 2010, the surprise was how much it wanted to run.

Go trades the glacial crawl of his day job for bright, bursting baroque pop, songs that tumble along on pure giddy momentum, and "Go Do" is the sound of that release, a skipping, sun-dazzled rush with that unmistakable voice leading the charge. He's a restless multi-instrumentalist, too, credited with guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica and keyboards. The Nordic Music Prize came his way in 2010.

He has kept busy since, contributing to the scores for How to Train Your Dragon and We Bought a Zoo, working often with his former partner Alex Somers, and following up with Shiver in 2020 and Obsidian a year later, which came paired with a gallery show under that name.

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