{"id":4201,"date":"2009-07-14T01:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:45:52","slug":"so-haunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/so-haunting\/","title":{"rendered":"So Haunting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t stop playing this track, and when I&#8217;m away from the computer it keeps playing in my head&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href='https:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/static\/a0cy0jv0pm.mp3'>Riceboy Sleeps &#8211; &#8220;Boy 1904&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon Thor Birgisson, of <em>Sigur Ros<\/em>, and his partner Alex Somers collaborate under the name <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jonsiandalex.com\/\">Riceboy Sleeps<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Riceboy-Sleeps-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Riceboy Sleeps\" title=\"Riceboy Sleeps\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>&#8220;Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur R\u00f3s, Jon Thor Birgisson has &#8211; together with his partner Alex Somers &#8211; been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now, including the release of a limited edition picture book. A couple of months back the early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced in physical form for the first time, with the track &#8220;Happiness&#8221;, on the exemplary Dark Was The Night Red Hot compilation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; the full-length Riceboy Sleeps album is finished and ready for release. And, as with &#8220;Happiness&#8221;, it is set to subtly redefine expectations of slow and elegiac instrumental music in 2009.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Their self-titled debut full-length Riceboy Sleeps is out July 21 on XL. Available for <a href=\"http:\/\/jonsiandalex.com\/\">pre-order<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t stop playing this track, and when I&#8217;m away from the computer it keeps playing in my head&#8230; Riceboy Sleeps &#8211; &#8220;Boy 1904&#8221; Jon Thor Birgisson, of Sigur Ros, and his partner Alex Somers collaborate under the name Riceboy Sleeps. &#8220;Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}