Blog: The Needle Drop

When I caught word of Sigur Rós releasing a video for one of my favorite tracks from their new album, Valtari , I got pretty excited to see what kind of visuals the band had attached to the beautiful, fragile piano piece. I was shocked to find an intensely avant-garde loaded with NSFW images and Shia LaBeouf playing a lead role. As ridiculous as concoction of elements, there's actually a strange beauty to this piece, and the unlikely beginning gets explained through the video's, uh, "storyline" as it progresses through an argument, [...]