Amiina

White Denim, Joan Shelley, Lump, Mega Bog, Matthew E White, Amiina and more

The album is out February 12

Icelandic post-rock stars bring confetti, brass and strings to the festival

A snoozefest. Zzzzzzzzz. Pretty bloody boring – just a few of the predictions about Sigur Ros’s Latitude headline set from some of my colleagues and friends this afternoon. I have to admit that, after seeing Metronomy’s dancey geek-pop about half an hour before, the prospect of a bunch of deathly slow ethereal meanderings sung in a foreign language (or, of course, a completely made-up language) didn’t seem like the most appealing prospect.

Bands, films plus premiere of last ever recording to raise money for charity