in the april issue of the fly there is a feature on jónsi and how he approched the recording of “go”.

what the break gave, erm, birth to, was a record that noone, not even jónsi himself, saw coming. songs that had been written on ukulele (‘go’), harmonium (‘grow till tall’) or piano (‘tornado’) were reworked and rearranged with phillip glass protégé and grizzly bear collaborator nico muhly, emerging as different beasts. jónsi, to his shock, was making pop songs. pop songs with big fucking string sections and incomprehensible lyrics (he might be singing in english this time, but it’s not always easy to work out what he’s singing), of course. “i remember, when i came from the studio from the first session, i was like, ‘shit, this is a crazy pop album – what have i done?!’,” he laughs. “a lot of this is definitely more pop, it’s more voice-orientated. it’s got the same mixing man who mixed amy winehouse so there was a focus on the voice. it’s different for me.”

the fly interview is available online here, with the full magazine available in digital format here. (physical copies of the magazine are available all over the united kingdom)

the fly magazine are also running a competition for free tickets to the london show on the 27th of may, you can enter the competition here.